How to read an Internal ConfigurationSection from Web.Config in ASP.NET

Question

I am trying to read a Microsoft defined ConfigurationSection:

Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Caching.DataCacheClientSection

but the type is internal so I cannot access it in the conventional way.

i.e.

var dataCacheClientSection = (DataCacheClientSection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("dataCacheClient");

I know I can use reflection but do I have any other options?

Answer 1

You can open the configuration file as XmlDocument and read whatever you want there using XPath.

Something like:

var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location + ".config");
XmlNode setting = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("configuration/...");

Use the correct XPath in SelectSingleNode