Simplest possible key/value pair file parsing in .NET

Hi All

Recently i was working on a requirement to pick a value from config file, in order to make the application more flexible. The one commonly used method is to either use the .config file or else go for XML. I cannot dump whole data into .config so i ruled out that option and i don't want to go for the same old XML parsing nodes technique. So i browsed and came across "Nini" (not sure how they got this name :-)). Yeah it is simple to use.


You can define your own file with just a simple syntax of pair key value.Something like :

[Configuration]

Name = Nishant Kumar 

Phone = +44-0123456789

And then you can read the keys as below :

var source = new IniConfigSource ("Settings.ini"); 

var config = source.Configs ["Configuration"]; 

string name = config.Get ("Name"); 

string phone = config.Get ("Phone");

So looks quite simple,Obviously, you need to have a reference to the dll's of Nini. This can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nini/files/latest/download?source=files

Hope it helps.

Thanks

Nishant