Read and modify a configuration

To read and modify configuration, you use Config and ConfigManager.

The ConfigManager class reads configurations from folder ~/App_Data/Sitefinity/Configuration. The configuration section is stored in a file with the same name as the configuration class. The extension is .config. The file is created only if the configuration differs from the default values.

NOTE: To create the file, you can copy and modify an existing configuration file.

  • The PageAppearanceConfig.config contains the following code:
  • To read values from PageAppearanceConfig.config, use the following code:
  • To modify values from PageAppearanceConfig.config, use the following code:
  • To modify nested configurations, for example, LoadBalancingConfig, which is part of SystemConfig.config, use the following code:

NOTE: The PageAppearanceConfig class in the samples above is a custom class. For more information about creating custom configuration classes, see Create a new configuration.

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