Best way to use .Net Configuration From Outlook Add-In?

[Chris Newby]

I've been building an Outlook Add-In using .Net and I've come to the point
were I'd like to start integrating it with the rest of our .Net-based
application framework (our DAL, BLL, etc.). One clear problem is that our
existing application framework relies exlcusively on the .Net configuration
system for configuration.

But this add-in is executing as a COM app. Is there a way I can cleanly use
our existing .Net-based configuration? or will I have to write a parallel
version for COM?

I had this same problem years ago, and in fact wrote a parallel version for
COM ... but I was hoping someone might shed some new light on this as that
solution then was somewhat lacking in elegance and would be relatively work
intensive in my case today.

TIA//

 

[Chris Newby]

Of course, I could always name my config file Outlook.exe.config and put it
in the same directory as Outlook.exe ... Duh ...