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SettingsProviderCollection Class

Represents a collection of application settings providers.

System.Object
  System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderCollection
    System.Configuration.SettingsProviderCollection
      System.Web.Profile.ProfileProviderCollection

Namespace:  System.Configuration
Assembly:  System (in System.dll)
public class SettingsProviderCollection : ProviderCollection

The SettingsProviderCollection type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method SettingsProviderCollection Initializes a new instance of the SettingsProviderCollection class.
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  Name Description
Public property Count Gets the number of providers in the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public property IsSynchronized Gets a value indicating whether access to the collection is synchronized (thread safe). (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public property Item Gets the settings provider in the collection that matches the specified name.
Public property SyncRoot Gets the current object. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
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  Name Description
Public method Add Adds a new settings provider to the collection. (Overrides ProviderCollection.Add(ProviderBase).)
Public method Clear Removes all items from the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public method CopyTo Copies the contents of the collection to the given array starting at the specified index. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetEnumerator Returns an object that implements the IEnumerator interface to iterate through the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method Remove Removes a provider from the collection. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public method SetReadOnly Sets the collection to be read-only. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
Public method ToString Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
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  Name Description
Explicit interface implemetation Private method ICollection.CopyTo Copies the elements of the ProviderCollection to an array, starting at a particular array index. (Inherited from ProviderCollection.)
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The SettingsProviderCollection class is a straightforward extension of the ProviderCollection class to provide for storage of SettingsProvider objects.

The ApplicationSettingsBase class uses this collection to manage the settings providers associated with each of its application settings properties through the SettingsProviderAttribute.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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