Custom Configurations:

this is a test
Allows the application to simplify the use of configuration settings.  For example if the app has multiple clients settings to be recorded a section for each can be defined and the values seperated out.  The config class allows easy access to a clients configuration and deals with the configuration hooking up in the background for you.

Here is an example configuration file:

<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="testsection2" type="CustomConfigurations.ConfigurationSectionLoader, CustomConfigurations" />
    <sectionGroup name="myCustomGroup">
      <section name="mysection" type="CustomConfigurations.ConfigurationSectionLoader, CustomConfigurations" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <myCustomGroup>
    <mysection>
      <Configs>
      <ConfigurationGroup name="client1">
        <ValueItems>
          <ValueItem key="key2" value="value2" />
          <ValueItem key="key3" value="value3" />
          <ValueItem key="key4" value="value4" />
          <ValueItem key="key5" value="7" />
          <ValueItem key="key6" value="0.6" />        
      </ConfigurationGroup>
	  <ConfigurationGroup name="client2">
          <ValueItems>
            <ValueItem key="keya" value="abc" />
            <ValueItem key="key2" value="123" />
          </ValueItems>
        </ConfigurationGroup>
      </Configs>
    </mysection>
  </myCustomGroup>

  <testsection2>
    <Configs>
      <ConfigurationGroup name="clienta">
        <ValueItems>
          <ValueItem key="key2" value="valueabc" />          
        </ValueItems>       
      </ConfigurationGroup>
    </Configs>
  </testsection2>
</configuration>

If the app wanted to read "client2"'s configuration it could do the following:

CustomConfigurations.Config Configloader = new CustomConfigurations.Config("client2");

To access a value it would use the index of the key:

string myVal = Configloader["keya"];

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The console application "ExampleApp" shows the different ways the customConfiguration application can be used.

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TODO / Features to come:

- Will be adding collections within a configurationGroup, so there can be a bit more complex data within a single configurationGroup.
- Want to remove some of the verbosity of the hierarchy, seems a bit over the top at the moment but not sure how yet.
- Will be adding more examples and commenting them in far more detail.