WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration Method (String, String, String)

 

Opens the Web-application configuration file as a Configuration object using the specified virtual path, site name, and location to allow read or write operations.

Namespace:   System.Web.Configuration
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

static member OpenWebConfiguration : 
        path:string *
        site:string *
        locationSubPath:string -> Configuration

Parameters

path
Type: System.String

The virtual path to the configuration file.

site
Type: System.String

The name of the application Web site, as displayed in Internet Information Services (IIS) configuration.

locationSubPath
Type: System.String

The specific resource to which the configuration applies.

Exception Condition
ConfigurationErrorsException

A valid configuration file could not be loaded.

To obtain the Configuration object for a resource, your code must have read privileges on all the configuration files from which it inherits settings. To update a configuration file, your code must additionally have write privileges for both the configuration file and the directory in which it exists.

The following example shows how to access configuration information with the OpenWebConfiguration method.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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