Configuration parser that can read a file

Perhaps I should apologise for my rather sarcastic answer - but you did say you needed to know whether anyone here knew how to read a file - which almost everyone does; what you didn't do was ask for guidance on how to do it yourself.

Since many of us are (a) given to sarcasm, and (b) reluctant to do the work that a questioner should have done for themselves it's generally wise to demonstrate that you've made an effort to solve your problem for yourself before you seek help. Also, ask the question for which you want the answer. :)

A more helpful answer to your question, then, is that you should look at the MSDN library at the classes in the System.IO namespace. There, you will find the File class, which has methods that allow you to read a file line by line.

If you need to interpret numbers, true/false values, or named indicator values, you should also look in the System namespace at the int, float, (... other number types), bool and Enum types. They all have a TryParse() method that you can use to safely turn the string representation of the value into a usable value.

If you need to be a little more sophisticated, you can use Regular Expressions (System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex) - which are very powerful, but equally hard to get your mind around.