Configuration Updater

The Configuration Updater is a singleton class exposing methods required to refresh the local configuration.

Following are the parameters used by the Configuration Updater class:

  • ApplicationName: The application name that is passed to the API or the executable name.
  • Claims: The name that is passed to the API or the current User principal and groups
  • LastUpdate: The last update timestamp of the configuration.
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This same component needs to be able to run in web server environments, thus needs to be careful about assumptions on existing directories and permissions.


The System.Configuraiton API is used for querying the existing configuration, which consists of the following modes:

  • Direct Configuration item querying: The method type internally searches the appSettings section to retrieve the settings.
  • Whole section retrieval: This method type automatically retrieves the deserialized configuration section.

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