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Efforts to create extensible .NET applications and components often involve creating custom configuration sections. These chunks of XML contain everything from validation rules and object initialization values to Web service URIs and log file paths. One approach to mitigate the ever increasing complexity of configuration data is to move to attribute based configuration. This intermediate presentation will describe an alternative approach in which actual .NET code is used as an external configuration source. Techniques for storing configuration data as IronPython or Boo scripts in external sources (XML or text files, databases) will be explored.

John Zablocki is the Development Lead at MagazineRadar, a New York City based information services company supporting the publishing industry. He is also an adjunct professor at Fairfield University in the Dolan School of Business. John holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer, where he became an enthusiast of open source technologies. Online, John can be found at http://CodeVoyeur.com or http://dllHell.NET. Offline, he can be found too infrequently with his dog, daughter and his Martin acoustic.