To use, first of all, include the reference to the Crafted.Config assemby in your project.

First, create your configuration class. This will be the same type as ones created using ConfigurationSections in .Net 2.0. Just decorate the class with a Crafted.Configuration.Attributes.ConfigSection attribute, with the name of the custom section you're building.

Other than this the only differences lies in the additional ConfigElements that can be used such as DefaultTextConfigElement.

  
[Crafted.Configuration.Attributes.ConfigSection("webConfig")]  
public class WebConfig : System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection {

	[ConfigurationProperty(
		"MyConfigValue",
		IsRequired = true,
		DefaultValue = "Nothing")]
	public string MyConfigValue {
		get {
			return this["MyConfigValue"].ToString();
		}
		set {
			this["MyConfigValue"] = value;
		}
	}

	public string Something{
		get{
			return _something.Content;
		}
		set {
			_something.Content = value;
		}
	}

	[ConfigurationProperty("Something")]
	[TextConfigurationProperty]
	public DefaultTextConfigElement Something {
		get {
			return (DefaultTextConfigElement)this["Something"];
		}
	}
}  

Next, update your web.config with your custom section. Next add the new section in the list of config sections:

<section name="webConfig" type="ConfigTest.WebConfig" />

Then add your configuration section to the web.config:

<webConfig MyConfigValue="17:18">  
<Something>Other  
</webConfig>

Now to use the values all you need to do is wrap your Configuration class with Crafted.Configuration.Config where T is your class. You can then access and save the values as following:

using(Crafted.Configuration.Config<WebConfig> c
		 = new Crafted.Configuration.Config<WebConfig>()) {  
    c.Values.MyConfigValue = DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();  
    c.Values.Something.Content = "Other";  
    c.Save();  
}

using(Crafted.Configuration.Config<WebConfig> c
		 = new Crafted.Configuration.Config<WebConfig>()) {  
    litConfig.Text = c.Values.Something.ToString();  
}

Deprecated

Please note that the Crafted.Config namespace is deprecated and is included for backward compatibilty.

Where to find it

The source is published on github.com here: Crafted.Config

You can also install it using nuget