Hi All, I'm looking at using custom sections in app.config files and came across this code on the web

public abstract class BaseConfigurationSection<T> : ConfigurationSection
             where T : ConfigurationSection, new()
    {
        public static T Open()
        {
            Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
            if (config.Sections[typeof(T).Name] == null)
            {
                T instance = new T();
                config.Sections.Add(typeof(T).Name, instance);
                config.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full);
            }
            return config.Sections[typeof(T).Name] as T;
        }

        public void Save()
        {
            Configuration configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
            T section = (T)configuration.Sections[typeof(T).Name];
            CopyProperties(this, section);
            configuration.Save(ConfigurationSaveMode.Full);
        }

        private static void CopyProperties(ConfigurationElement source, ConfigurationElement destination)
        {
            foreach (PropertyInfo property in source.GetType().GetProperties())
            {
                if (property.IsDefined(typeof(ConfigurationPropertyAttribute), false))
                {
                    if (typeof(ConfigurationElement).IsAssignableFrom(property.PropertyType))
                    {
                        CopyProperties(
                            (ConfigurationElement)property.GetValue(source, null),
                            (ConfigurationElement)property.GetValue(destination, null));
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        object value = property.GetValue(source, null);
                        property.SetValue(destination, value, null);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

    }

Using this a base class you can then create your own custom sections as shown below

public class MySection : BaseConfigurationSection<MySection>
    {
        public MySection()
        {

        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Destination", DefaultValue = "Some place", IsRequired = true)]
        public string Destination
        {
            get 
            {
                return (string)this["Destination"];
            }
            set
            {
                this["Destination"] = value;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("DialCode", DefaultValue = "01932", IsRequired = true)]
        public string DialCode
        {
            get
            {
                return (string)this["DialCode"];
            }
            set
            {
                this["DialCode"] = value;
            }
        }
}

All this seems to work fine, but I want to inherit from "MySection" and am unsure as to how to do it - I've tried the normal way of subclassing

class MySection2:MySection
{
}

but get errors about cannot implicitly convert MySection to MySection2 and so on - is what am trying possible ?