You might want to look at my wwAppConfiguration class I published some time ago. This class provides a number of ways to store configuration content completely interchangeably among them to use external sections.

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/configurationclass/configurationclass.asp

+++ Rick ---

>I thought I read somewhere that there is a way to have your own (custom) configuration file (e.g. my.config) that can be included in web.config. Is it possible and how? I want to have all of my custom < appSettings > in a config file but not in web.config.
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>Thank you in advance for any help.