C# (Winform) dynamically add textBoxes and labels from parsing the appSetting and connectionStrings section of a third party app.config

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Hi,


Does anyone knows wich is the best way to dynamicaly add winform's controls after reading and parsing the appSettings and connectionString section of another app.config?

I've got a third party config fi<small></small>le ITFLauncher.exe.config like this:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <configuration>
      <connectionStrings>
        <add name="MyDataBase" connectionString="Data Source=myDataSource; User Id=myUser;Password=myPassword;" providerName="ORACLE" />
      </connectionStrings>
      <appSettings>
        <add key="key1" value="value1"/>
        <add key="key2" value="value2"/>
        <add key="key3" value ="value3"/>
        <add key="key4" value="value4"/>
        <add key="key5" value="value5"/>
      </appSettings>
        <startup>
            <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
        </startup>
    </configuration>

and I need to add to my winForm i labels for keys and i textBoxes for the corresponding values

e.g

label1.text : "conncetionstring"
text1.text : "Data Source=myDataSource; User Id=myUser;Password=myPassword;"

label2.text : "key1"
text2.text : "value1"

.
.
.

labeli.text : "keyi"
texti.text : "valuei"

=> textboxes must be updatable so i can change the app.config values by clicking a save button.


Best regards.

Posted 14-Apr-15 5:52am

tek001

Updated 14-Apr-15 5:53am

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BillWoodruff 14-Apr-15 14:14pm

"after reading and parsing the appSettings and connectionString section of another app.config?" So, you can successfully parse the file(s) now, and your question is how to take the parsed file and create the Labels and TextBoxes ?

What is the data structure in which your parsed file(s) is stored ? A Dictionary, or >

tek001 14-Apr-15 15:38pm

There’s nothing done yet. I'm looking for the fastest and the securest way to read an app.config file belonging to another application by a C# win32 application (WinForm or WPF) and put the collected information into labels and textboxes in a dynamic way (It doesn’t matter how many keys there’re in the file) so I can change the values of these keys and save them back to the original app.config file.

tek001 14-Apr-15 17:43pm

Actually I did this for keys :
Configuration configFile = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(@"C:\Users\teka001\BiLauncher\BiLauncher\bin\BiLauncher.exe");
string[] TabKeys = configFile.AppSettings.Settings.AllKeys.ToArray();
Now I have to find a way to retrieve associated values from this third party "BiLauncher.exe.config"

tek001 14-Apr-15 17:49pm

done for appSettings section:
List<string> values = new List<string>();
for (int cpt=0; cpt < TabKeys.Length; cpt++)
{

string value = configFile.AppSettings.Settings[TabKeys[cpt]].Value.ToString();
values.Add(value);

}

string[] Values = values.ToArray();

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tek001 · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-14T12:48:00

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;




namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {

        public static string configFileExe = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["configFileExe"];
       
    
  
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }


        public string[] TabKeys;
        public string[] TabValues;

        public void readAppConfig()
        {
            Configuration configFile = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(@configFileExe);
            
            TabKeys = configFile.AppSettings.Settings.AllKeys.ToArray();

            List<string> values = new List<string>();
            for (int cpt=0; cpt < TabKeys.Length; cpt++)
            {

                string value = configFile.AppSettings.Settings[TabKeys[cpt]].Value.ToString();
                    values.Add(value);
            }

            TabValues = values.ToArray();                       
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            readAppConfig();
            createTxtBoxes();
           
           
        }
     

        public void createTxtBoxes()
        {
            TextBox[] txtBoxes = new TextBox[TabKeys.Length];
            Label[] labels = new Label[TabValues.Length];
            for (int u = 0; u < txtBoxes.Count(); u++)
            {
                txtBoxes[u] = new TextBox();
                labels[u] = new Label();
            }
            
            for(int i = 0; i< txtBoxes.Count(); ++i)
            {
                string nameTxtBox = TabKeys[i].ToString();
                txtBoxes[i].Name = nameTxtBox;                
                txtBoxes[i].Text = nameTxtBox;
                txtBoxes[i].Location = new Point(350, 32 + (i * 28));
                Size size = TextRenderer.MeasureText(txtBoxes[i].Text, txtBoxes[i].Font);
                txtBoxes[i].Width = size.Width;
                txtBoxes[i].Height = size.Height;
                txtBoxes[i].Visible = true;
                string nameLabel = TabValues[i].ToString();
                labels[i].Name = nameLabel;
                labels[i].Text = nameLabel;
                labels[i].AutoSize = true;
                labels[i].Location = new Point(32, 32 + (i * 28));
                labels[i].Visible = true;
                this.panel1.Controls.Add(labels[i]);
                this.panel1.Controls.Add(txtBoxes[i]);
                
                
            }

            
        }


    }
}