How to implement a ConfigurationSection with a ConfigurationElementCollection

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The previous answer is correct but I’ll give you all the code as well.

Your app.config should look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
   <configSections>
      <section name="ServicesSection" type="RT.Core.Config.ServiceConfigurationSection, RT.Core"/>
   </configSections>
   <ServicesSection>
      <Services>
         <add Port="6996" ReportType="File" />
         <add Port="7001" ReportType="Other" />
      </Services>
   </ServicesSection>
</configuration>

Your ServiceConfig and ServiceCollection classes remain unchanged.

You need a new class:

public class ServiceConfigurationSection : ConfigurationSection
{
   [ConfigurationProperty("Services", IsDefaultCollection = false)]
   [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(ServiceCollection),
       AddItemName = "add",
       ClearItemsName = "clear",
       RemoveItemName = "remove")]
   public ServiceCollection Services
   {
      get
      {
         return (ServiceCollection)base["Services"];
      }
   }
}

And that should do the trick. To consume it you can use:

ServiceConfigurationSection serviceConfigSection =
   ConfigurationManager.GetSection("ServicesSection") as ServiceConfigurationSection;

ServiceConfig serviceConfig = serviceConfigSection.Services[0];

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