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Read .NET Configuration Files Using NameValueSectionHandler And AppSettingsSection Types In C#

Hello all,
I've read from a tutorial NameValueCollection and .NET Configuration Files which targets .NET 1.0/1.1 on how to read config files using type NameValueSectionHandler. I intend to explore more on applying this concept to recent versions of .NET frameworks. Upon doing some diggings, I came up with two options. First is using NameValueSectionHandler type and the other one is AppSettingsSections. To begin with, I have this App.config file with XML elements scriptsfiles and docfiles all registered in configSections.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="scriptfiles" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler"/>
    <section name="docfiles" type="System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection"/>
  </configSections>
  <scriptfiles>
    <add key="C:\batchfiles\2017" value="*.bat" />
    <add key="C:\vbs\2017" value="*.vbs" />
  </scriptfiles>
  <docfiles>
    <add key="C:\applicants\2017" value="*.doc" />
    <add key="C:\officemanuals\2017" value="*.pdf" />
  </docfiles>
  <startup> 
      <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5.2" />
  </startup> 
</configuration>
If you noticed, each sections are declared with different types specifically NameValueSectionHandler and AppSettingsSection with similar node structures. To read the element with type NameValueSectionHandler we use the ConfigurationManager.GetSection() method.
C# Code
private static void ReadNameValueSectionHandler()
{
 Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);            
 NameValueCollection scriptFiles = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection(config.GetSection("scriptfiles").SectionInformation.SectionName);
 foreach (var item in scriptFiles.AllKeys)
 {
  Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Key:{0}, value:{1}", item, scriptFiles[item]));
 }
}
For the element with AppSettingsSection type we simply cast the ConfigurationSection object to AppSettingsSection.
C# Code
private static void ReadAppSettingsSection()
{
 Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
 ConfigurationSection section = config.GetSection("docfiles");
 var scriptSettings = ((AppSettingsSection)section).Settings;    

 foreach (var item in scriptSettings.AllKeys)
 {
  Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Key:{0}, value:{1}", item, scriptSettings[item].Value));
 }
}

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