When a VB6 COM+ Component is migrated to a ServiceComponent,
you might want to take advantage of the Configuration files of .NET to specify your
connection strings and other important information.
So where should your App.Config go.
There is a slight diference with a ServiceComponent.
Remember that for a ServicedComponent the hosting process is ‘dllhost.exe’.
So your programs will look for config files in %windir%\System32, which is not a very nice solution.
You can instead set the ‘Application Base Directory’ of the COM+ Application.
Follow these steps:
1) Create an application.manifest file and copy it to the directory
that will be used as the base directory for the COM+ application. The file can be like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"/>
2) Create an app.config file and copy that file to the same :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="ConfigData" value="My Custom AppSetting!" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
3) Configure the COM+ Application:
3.1) Open the Component Services MMC
3.2) Find the COM+ Application
3.3) Right Click the Application and go to Properties and Activation Tab
3.4) Find option: ‘Application Root Directory’
3.5) Write the path where the other two files where created.
This blog post was created from an original Blog Post from HeikkiRi.