ASP.Net app, Class Library and Web Service

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Joe Reazor - 23 Jul 2003 19:46 GMT

I have an ASP.Net application that uses some Class Libraries (dll's) that I
created separately. One of these dll's connects to a Web Service. I
created the Web Reference to my web service and doing so creates my
App.Config file. I thought I would then be able to use the config file to
specify where the Web Service existed to connect to. The problem is that I
found out that Class Libraries (dll's) don't have their own config files,
they must use the config files of their containing app. In this case its a
web app. So I try adding the appropriate settings in the Web.Config file
hoping that it would be picked up by my dll, but no luck. Is there
something I am missing? Is this possible in the standard method that
everyone says to use, is there some other way, or am I screwed and I will be
stuck recompiling my dll every time I want to change the host of the web
service.

TIA for any help.

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Joe Reazor
Gorbel Inc.
email: joereaATgorbelDOTcom

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Dino Chiesa [MSFT] - 23 Jul 2003 20:49 GMT

settings within web.config should be retrievable from your DLL ;
I do this and it works for me.

do you use System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings??

What is the problem you are seeing?

> I have an ASP.Net application that uses some Class Libraries (dll's) that I
> created separately. One of these dll's connects to a Web Service. I
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> Gorbel Inc.
> email: joereaATgorbelDOTcom

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Joe Reazor - 24 Jul 2003 13:25 GMT

I'll give that a try. In the examples I had seen it looked like an
application that was using a Web Service would automatically read the web
service's location from the config file. I didn't think there was anything
else I needed to do other than to add the web reference and keep the config
file with my app. So with a web app I need to do the extra step to read
from the configuration settings and set the URL of the web service object.
Maybe I would need to do this with a regular executable, but I didn't think
so. That's why I was getting confused.

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Joe Reazor
Gorbel Inc.
email: joereaATgorbelDOTcom

> settings within web.config should be retrievable from your DLL ;
> I do this and it works for me.
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> > Gorbel Inc.
> > email: joereaATgorbelDOTcom

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