Vista - Read config file

I'm working on a script that will read in configuration information and
perform actions based on that.

Is there a "best practice" for doing this? Essentially, I'd like to read in
things like database name, input file locations, output file locations, etc.
Should I use INI, XML, something else?

What is the configuration file for? is it an application you are writing.
Different applications have different config files so its difficult to
generalise. if you are writing the app I would suggest using XML
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"sylan" wrote:

The standard for .net applications is an xml file named after the exe, with a
..config suffix. For example, the config for hello.exe would be
hello.exe.config. The outer elements and some inner elements are
standardized, but the format can also be extended in a specified manner.
The System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager namespace of the framework
contains classes that support reading and writing such config files, and you
can of course call those methods from Powershell.

While you don't have an exe and thus won't get some of the automagic that
comes from the exe.config association, you could still follow that format and
use methods of the ConfigurationManager class to access a file with a name
like "myscript.ps1.config".

Even if you don't want to use the standard format for the content, I think
using xml and that .config naming convention would be a good idea.

- leo


"sylan" wrote:

That's what I needed. Thanks!

"Leo Tohill" wrote: