We are going to have a windows service that will run a few workflow(WF) instances. I want to have configuration information to be stored in separate config files for each WF instance. I remembered that EntLib has helper classes to store custom objects configuration in separate custom configuration file, but finding good examples in Google wasn't easy(probably I didn't find good search keywords).
The links that I finally found(more relevant to the task first)
Tom Hollander 'post External configuration files in Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 mostly talks about EntLib provider config sections, but comments are talking about FileConfigurationSource and custom sections.
Alois Kraus has good articles in his blog : Read/Write App.config with .NET 2.0/Enterprise Library (and similar in CodeProject) and Microsoft Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0: Configuration .
Using section handlers to group settings in the configuration file. shows how to use sections of the types:
Example of separate custom config file Enterprise Library - Configuration Application Block - Patterns and Practices is obsolete(using EntLib 1.0). See Enterprise Library 2.0 - From Configuration Block to IConfigurationSource - SystemConfigurationSource - FileConfigurationSource
reference: Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.Configuration Namespace
Alternative implementations from CodeProject without using EntLib are Custom app.config and A custom configuration file AppSettings reader class
If you want to add EntLib Configuration Manager Design time support for editing your sections, look at
Enterprise Library Configuration (Part 1/2): Customized Appsettings and the EntLib Configuration Manager tool
Enterprise Library Configuration (Part 2/2): Customizable configuration with framework extensions
Alex Homer: Adding Configuration Support for Custom Providers in Enterprise Library in ASP.NET 2.
and Enterprise Library 2.0: Building Named Extensions in the Configuration Console