How to work with connectionStrings configSource attribute

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I am trying to use the webconfig / appconfig “configSource” and “file” attributes respectively, to allow custom, per-developer-and-not-version-controlled settings. I currently use this approach in a day-job MS WebApi2 project, and am trying to replicate in SS.

However, when I try to path to a private setting file in the web.config connstrings tag, eg:

connectionStrings configSource=“…/…/ConnectionStrings.Private.config”

(based on ASP.NET MVC: Keep Private Settings Out of Source Control | John Atten )

I get the error “ConfigurationErrorsException: The configSource attribute must be a relative physical path, so the ‘/’ character is not allowed.”

This error message appears to be coming outside of ServiceStack, but its strange because as mentioned I am currently using a relative path just like this in a WebApi2 project does ServiceStack AppSettings not support the use of custom config files?

The code I am trying is publicly available:

https://github.com/daleholborow/iayos.core.db.deploy

and specifically, run the iayos.core.db.deploy.TEST project, after having created a private file called “ConnectionStrings.Private.config” in the project folder.

Any ideas?

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You’re dealing with .NET’s config system, this has nothing to do with ServiceStack, we proactively try to avoid using web.config constructs and prefer using our clean AppSettings providers instead.

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