SectionInformation.IsDeclarationRequired Property

Definition

Gets a value that indicates whether the configuration section must be declared in the configuration file.

C#
public bool IsDeclarationRequired { get; }

Property Value

true if the associated ConfigurationSection object must be declared in the configuration file; otherwise, false.

Examples

The examples in this section show how to get the IsDeclarationRequired property value after accessing the related section information in the configuration file.

The following example gets the SectionInformation object.

C#
// Get the current configuration file.
System.Configuration.Configuration config =
        ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(
        ConfigurationUserLevel.None);

// Get the section.
UrlsSection section =
    (UrlsSection)config.GetSection("MyUrls");

SectionInformation sInfo =
    section.SectionInformation;

The following example gets the IsDeclarationRequired value.

C#
bool declRequired = 
    sInfo.IsDeclarationRequired;
Console.WriteLine("Declaration required?: {0}",
    declRequired.ToString());

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

See also