Read a configuration section from web.config

Consider we have a section in our web.config file as follow

		<SampleConfig Name="Scott" Address="Address1" Email="Email@domain.com" />

and we want to read this from our C# code and then return a object of person class as follow:

    public class Person
    {
        public Person()
        {

        }

        public string Name
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public string Address
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        public string Email
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

For that, we first need to create a section handler class as follows:

public class SampleSectionConfiguration : ConfigurationSection
    {
        public const string SECTION_NAME = "SampleConfig";
        public const string NAME = "Name";
        public const string ADDRESS = "Address";
        public const string EMAIL = "Email";

        [ConfigurationProperty(NAME, IsRequired = true)]
        public string Name
        {
            get
            {
                return this[NAME].ToString();
            }
            set
            {
                this[NAME] = value;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty(ADDRESS, IsRequired = true)]
        public string Address
        {
            get
            {
                return this[ADDRESS].ToString();
            }
            set
            {
                this[ADDRESS] = value;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty(EMAIL, IsRequired = true)]
        public string Email
        {
            get
            {
                return this[EMAIL].ToString();
            }
            set
            {
                this[EMAIL] = value;
            }
        }


        public static Person GetPersonConfiguration()
        {
            Person person = new Person();
            SampleSectionConfiguration section = (SampleSectionConfiguration)ConfigurationHelper.GetSection(SECTION_NAME);
            person.Address = section.Address;
            person.Email = section.Email;
            person.Name = section.Name;
            return person;
        }

        private static Configuration ConfigurationHelper
        {
            get
            {
                return WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~/");
                //IServiceProvider serviceProvider = null;
                //IWebApplication webApp = (IWebApplication)serviceProvider.GetService(typeof(IWebApplication));
                //return webApp.OpenWebConfiguration(true);
            }

        }

    }

Then configure your custom configuration section as follow:

<section name="SampleConfig" type="SectionConfig.SampleSectionConfiguration, SectionConfig, Culture=Neutral, PublicTokenKey=null"/>

Then put the code in your aspx file as follows:

public static Person GetPerson()
        {
            return SectionConfig.SampleSectionConfiguration.GetPersonConfiguration();
        }