SectionInformation.InheritInChildApplications Property

Definition

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the settings that are specified in the associated configuration section are inherited by applications that reside in a subdirectory of the relevant application.

C#
public bool InheritInChildApplications { get; set; }

Property Value

true if the settings specified in this ConfigurationSection object are inherited by child applications; otherwise, false. The default is true.

Examples

The following example shows how to get the InheritInChildApplications value of a ConfigurationSection object.

C#
static public void GetInheritInChildApps()
{
    SectionInformation sInfo =
        GetSectionInformation();

    bool inheritInChildApps =
        sInfo.InheritInChildApplications;
    Console.WriteLine("Inherit in child apps: {0}",
        inheritInChildApps.ToString());
}

Remarks

The InheritInChildApplications property represents the inheritInChildApplications attribute of a location element in a configuration file.

Set InheritInChildApplications to false to prevent settings that are specific to a certain location (such as the root directory of a Web site) from being inherited by applications that exist in subdirectories.

The following example shows how to use this attribute in a configuration file to specify that the settings defined in the location element for the root of a Web site should not be inherited by child applications:

<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">

The InheritInChildApplications property applies only to location-specific configuration settings.

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