Below is what i have as the custom section in the web.config file...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
   
   <!-- register local configuration handlers -->
   <configSections>
       <sectionGroup name="cbsoffice">
           <section name="data"
type="CbsOffice.ProviderConfigurationHandler,CbsOffice"/>
       </sectionGroup>
   </configSections>

*******************************************************
***Customer web.config section*************************
<cbsoffice>
    <data defaultProvider="SqlDataProvider">
       <providers>
           <add name = "SqlDataProvider"
                   type = "CbsOffice.Data.SqlDataProvider,
CbsOffice.SqlDataProvider"
                   connectionString =
"Server=(local);Database=CbsOffice;uid=;pwd=;"
                   providerPath =
"..\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\"
                   objectQualifier = "_"
                   databaseOwner = "dbo"
           />
       </providers>
   </data>
</cbsoffice>

The Connection handler is below...
public class ProviderConfigurationHandler :
IConfigurationSectionHandler
{
public object Create(object parent, object configContext, XmlNode
section)
{
ProviderConfiguration providerConfig=new ProviderConfiguration();
providerConfig.LoadValuesFromConfigurationXml(section);
return providerConfig;
}
}

The above function goes through the attributes of the dataprovider
section and puts them into a hashtable..however when calling the
function:
public static ProviderConfiguration GetProviderConfiguration(string
providerName)
{
return (ProviderConfiguration)ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig("cbsoffice/"+providerName);
-> equal to "cbsoffice/data"
}

It throws the Exception in configuration section, as if its not
finding the data object at all...