How to read a web.config from .Net Window Application

Question

I'm developing a .NET Framework 4.0 based Windows application.
I have a requirement of distributing this window application, along with source code to client.

When I test I'm using my own database credentials.
So I want a method to somehow hide the app.config details.

For this, I tried with encrypting values in app.config but faced an issue with token keys.
While researching about it, I found that I can use:

System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration. 

But that again required username and password for accessing remote server and don't want to show them to the client.

So for this I planned to read web.config hosted on IIS 7.5 Server.

Could you please help me in that context?
Or if you have better ideas to achieve the objective, do share.

Answer 1

The code is designed to be very close in syntax to the usual method used for accessing web.config from a web app. Pass the constructor the location of the web.config file you wish to parse and then use the AppSettings method to obtain the desired value;

string filename = @"c:\temp\Web.Config"; 
UK.Org.Webman.ConfigurationSettings ConfigurationSettings = 
    new UK.Org.Webman.ConfigurationSettings(filename); 
string PrimaryDatabase = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["PrimaryDatabase"];