Using the following set of classes:

public class MyConfigSection : ConfigurationSection { [ConfigurationProperty("Items")] public ItemCollection Items { get { return ((ItemCollection)(base["Items"])); } } } [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(ItemElement), AddItemName = "Item")] public class ItemCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection { ... } public class ItemElement : ConfigurationElement { ... }

I organize the reading of the configuration section of the following form:

 <MySection> <Items> <Item ... /> <Item ... /> <Item ... /> </Items> </MySection>

Is it possible to somehow customize the reading, if I want the section to look like

 <MySection> <Item ... /> <Item ... /> <Item ... /> </MySection>

those. so that the elements of the collection are not enclosed in <Items></Items> , but read directly from the section.

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    Try using the IsDefaultCollection parameter and the empty string as a key:

     public class MyConfigSection : ConfigurationSection { [ConfigurationProperty("", Options = ConfigurationPropertyOptions.IsDefaultCollection)] public ItemCollection Items { get { return ((ItemCollection)(base[""])); } } }
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      It worked. With null instead of the empty string, too. (Wow! For the first time I see a place where string.Empty cannot be used instead of "" ). - i-one
    • @ i-one: yep, we need a string literal there. - VladD