ProviderCollection::SetReadOnly Method ()

 

Sets the collection to be read-only.

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

public:
void SetReadOnly()

The ProviderCollection class is read/write by default. The SetReadOnly method makes the collection read-only. After a collection is set to read-only, some method calls (such as Remove and Add will result in an exception.

Note that most provider-based features will set their ProviderCollection object to read-only after creating instances of all of the configured providers.

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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