How to write a Custom Configuration Collection Section with Composite Pattern

I want to write Composite Pattern to web.config like below

<membership defaultProvider="TestSqlMembershipProvider">
      <providers>
           <add name="TestSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
                    connectionStringName="TestConsumerEndPoint" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true"
                     requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" applicationName="Nda" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Hashed"
                     maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="10" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
                      passwordAttemptWindow="3"/>
      </providers>
</membership>

Also I want to create this object using the Abstract Factory pattern.
Any idea how to go about this?

Thanks.

Volkan Genç, Aug 28, 2012

Reply 1

Volkan,

I'm not sure what you are asking, but I have built an open source application called MvcInstaller that programmatically creates the Membership sections in the web.config. You can see a video of the application that uses this here, http://www.mvccentral.net/s/45.

You can also get the code at my github.com repository here: https://github.com/kahanu/MvcInstaller.

Here's a quick look at the code: https://github.com/kahanu/MvcInstaller/blob/master/MvcInstallerV3/ConfigurationFactory.cs

I hope this helps.

King Wilder

King Wilder, Sep 05, 2012

Hmm, don't know. As stated I just downloaded the SQL Server Express yesterday, after installing the DoFactory software. I got it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/express.aspx I am using Windows 7, 64-bit edition. Could it be that I need to install "SQL Express" and not "SQL Server Express" as stated in your Getting Started document? I don't really see such a product on the microsoft web-site though.

Aug 04, 2011