can my cmdlet/snapin have a config file?

I just built a cmdlet/snapin for Powershell. it has a myCmdlet.dll.config
where it's installed. However, i'm not getting anything inside the cmdlet
when i do a:

COnfigurationManager.AppSettings["foobar"]

How do cmdlet configuration files work?

"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97A43B65-7172-46CA-8A15-BBD83F68CC7A@microsoft.com...
>I just built a cmdlet/snapin for Powershell. it has a myCmdlet.dll.config
> where it's installed. However, i'm not getting anything inside the
> cmdlet
> when i do a:
>
> COnfigurationManager.AppSettings["foobar"]
>
> How do cmdlet configuration files work?

IIRC the ConfigurationManager.AppSetttings class works off an application
level config file. This is a common problem in .NET. There isn't a
framework supported config file for DLLs. BTW I would *not* recommend
dumping stuff into a PowerShell.exe.config file.

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Keith

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"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:97A43B65-7172-46CA-8A15-BBD83F68CC7A@microsoft.com...
>I just built a cmdlet/snapin for Powershell. it has a myCmdlet.dll.config
> where it's installed. However, i'm not getting anything inside the cmdlet
> when i do a:
>
> COnfigurationManager.AppSettings["foobar"]
>
> How do cmdlet configuration files work?


I did something similar in a web app, Manually loading a config file from Assembly Path, that didn't work with GACed assemblies,
I believe assembly redirection policy configuration files are published in GAC by compiling them into an assembly as a resource, pretty useless for configuration as it's just as easy to change the code, recompile and re-publish as doing the same with a configuration file.

I know PSCX contain a method for associating cmdlet parameter default values to variables in the powershell environment, but haven't tried it yet.

Perhaps you can put the configuration into registry by attaching an eventhandler to the AfterInstall event your SnapIn inherits from Installer.
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Joris van Lier
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