SectionInformation.AllowOverride Property

 

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the associated configuration section can be overridden by lower-level configuration files.

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

Public Property AllowOverride As Boolean

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean

true if the section can be overridden; otherwise, false. The default is false.

The examples in this section show how to get the AllowOverride property value after accessing the related section information in the configuration file.

The following example gets the SectionInformation object.

' Get the current configuration file.
Dim config _
As System.Configuration.Configuration = _
ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration( _
ConfigurationUserLevel.None)

' Get the section.
Dim section As UrlsSection = _
CType(config.GetSection("MyUrls"), UrlsSection)

Dim sInfo As SectionInformation = _
section.SectionInformation

The following example gets the AllowOverride value.

Dim allowOverride As Boolean = _
sInfo.AllowOverride
Console.WriteLine("Allow override: {0}", _
allowOverride.ToString())

.NET Framework
Available since 2.0
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