Share variable in web.config Across Projects in a Solution in Visual Studio

Question

I have one solution that contains 3 projects : ASP.net MVC 4.0, Share Library and Web Service project. I want to share some of key value in appSettings of Web.Config in ASP.net mvc Project to Web Service Project. I found this answer but it's now working for me.

Could anyone give me some idea please.

Thanks you so much.

Answer 1

You could store that information into a dll that you would share accross all your projects :

Create a new Class Library project :

Name your class MyConfiguration.cs for example

namespace CentralizedInformation
{
    public static class MyConfiguration
    {
        public static string Value1 = "Test string value 1";
        public static int Value2 = 2;
    }
}

After you can add the reference in all your projects (Project -> add reference -> Browse -> Browse to CentralizedInformation.dll)

and add itin your projects (here an mvc project example)

using CentralizedInformation;

//for asp net mvc project 
protected void Application_Start()
{
   string mySharedAccrossAllProjectsString = CentralizedInformation.MyConfiguration.Value1;
   //put it wherever you need it session or anything else
}

Juste reference the same in your other projects and you are done. Also rebuild your projects when you want to update the data ...

That dll could have a config file and you could programmatically expose all it's data.

I admit it's a quite funny and complicated way to do such a simple thing. But that's a way ^^