Configuration.Sections Property

Definition

Gets a collection of the sections defined by this Configuration object.

public System.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionCollection Sections { get; }

Property Value

A collection of the sections defined by this Configuration object.

Examples

The following example shows how to retrieve the Sections property value and to display the number of the sections in the collection.

ConfigurationSectionCollection
    sections = config.Sections;
Console.WriteLine("Sections: {0}", sections.Count.ToString());

Remarks

Access the Sections property to retrieve a ConfigurationSectionCollection object representing the collection of sections for this Configuration object. If this Configuration object represents a merged configuration, the merged list of sections will be returned.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET 8 (package-provided), 9 (package-provided)
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7 (package-provided), 4.7, 4.7.1 (package-provided), 4.7.1, 4.7.2 (package-provided), 4.7.2, 4.8 (package-provided), 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0 (package-provided)
Windows Desktop 3.0, 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9