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SettingsProviderCollection.Add(ProviderBase) Method

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Configuration
Assembly:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.dll
Assembly:
System.dll
Package:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager v6.0.0
Package:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager v7.0.0
Package:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager v8.0.0
Package:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager v9.0.0-preview.3.24172.9
Source:
SettingsProviderCollection.cs
Source:
SettingsProviderCollection.cs
Source:
SettingsProviderCollection.cs
Source:
SettingsProviderCollection.cs

Adds a new settings provider to the collection.

public:
 override void Add(System::Configuration::Provider::ProviderBase ^ provider);
public override void Add (System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderBase provider);
override this.Add : System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderBase -> unit
Public Overrides Sub Add (provider As ProviderBase)

Parameters

provider
ProviderBase

A ProviderBase to add to the collection.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

The provider parameter is not of type SettingsProvider.

-or-

The Name property of the provider parameter is null or an empty string.

-or-

A settings provider with the same Name already exists in the collection.

NotSupportedException

The collection is read-only.

ArgumentNullException

The provider parameter is null.

Remarks

The Name property of the SettingsProvider is used as the storage key.

Caution

Although the Add method has a single ProviderBase parameter to match the signature of this same method in the base class ProviderCollection, this method will throw an exception if the provider parameter is not of type SettingsProvider.

Applies to

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