ConfigurationSection Hierarchy

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12/12/2007

The following table lists the classes derived from System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection .

Derived Classes

Class	Description
System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection	Provides configuration system support for the appSettings configuration section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection	Represents a group of user-scoped application settings in a configuration file.
System.Configuration.ConnectionStringsSection	Provides programmatic access to the connection strings configuration-file section.
System.Configuration.DefaultSection	Represents a basic configuration-section handler that exposes the configuration section's XML for both read and write access.
System.Configuration.IgnoreSection	Provides a wrapper type definition for configuration sections that are not handled by the System.Configuration types.
System.Configuration.ProtectedConfigurationSection	Provides programmatic access to the configProtectedData configuration section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.AuthenticationModulesSection	Represents the configuration section for authentication modules. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.ConnectionManagementSection	Represents the configuration section for connection management. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.DefaultProxySection	Represents the configuration section for Web proxy server usage. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.RequestCachingSection	Represents the configuration section for cache behavior. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.SettingsSection	Represents the configuration section for sockets, IPv6, response headers, and service points. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Net.Configuration.SmtpSection	Represents the SMTP section in the System.Net configuration file.
System.Net.Configuration.WebRequestModulesSection	Represents the configuration section for Web request modules. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Runtime.Serialization.Configuration.DataContractSerializerSection
System.ServiceModel.Activation.Configuration.DiagnosticSection	Represents a configuration element for specifying Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) listener's diagnostics functionalities. This class cannot be inherited.
System.ServiceModel.Activation.Configuration.NetPipeSection
System.ServiceModel.Activation.Configuration.NetTcpSection	Contains configuration elements for the NetTcpPortSharing sharing service. This class cannot be inherited.
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BehaviorsSection	Represents the configuration section that contains child entries that are behavior elements identified by their unique name.
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.BindingsSection
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ClientSection
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ComContractsSection	Represents a configuration section that contains elements for specifying the namespace and contract name for a COM+ integration contract. This class cannot be inherited.
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.CommonBehaviorsSection
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.DiagnosticSection
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ExtensionsSection	Represents a configuration section that contains all the extension definitions.
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceHostingEnvironmentSection	Represents a configuration section that defines the type that the service hosting environment instantiates for a particular transport.
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServicesSection	Represents the configuration section that contains services.
System.Transactions.Configuration.DefaultSettingsSection	Represents an XML section in a configuration file that contains default values of a transaction. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Transactions.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection	Represents an XML section in a configuration file encapsulating all settings that can be modified only at the machine level. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.AnonymousIdentificationSection	Configures anonymous identification for users that are not authenticated. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.AuthenticationSection	Configures the authentication for a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.AuthorizationSection	Configures a Web application authorization. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.CacheSection	Configures the global cache settings for an ASP.NET application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.ClientTargetSection	Configures the clientTarget section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.CompilationSection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the compilation infrastructure of Web applications. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.CustomErrorsSection	Configures the ASP.NET custom errors. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.DeploymentSection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the deployment of a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.GlobalizationSection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the globalization infrastructure of Web applications. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.HealthMonitoringSection	Configures ASP.NET profiles that determine how health-monitoring events are sent to event providers. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.HostingEnvironmentSection	Defines configuration settings that control the behavior of the application hosting environment. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.HttpCookiesSection	Configures properties for cookies used by a Web application.
System.Web.Configuration.HttpHandlersSection	Configures an HTTP handler for a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.HttpModulesSection	Configures an HTTP module for a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.HttpRuntimeSection	Configures the ASP.NET HTTP runtime. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.IdentitySection	Configures the identity of a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection	Defines the configuration settings that control the key generation and algorithms that are used in encryption, decryption, and media access control (MAC) operations in Windows Forms authentication, view-state validation, and session-state application isolation. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.MembershipSection	Defines configuration settings to support the infrastructure for configuring and managing membership details. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.OutputCacheSection	Configures the output cache for a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.OutputCacheSettingsSection	Configures the output cache settings for application pages . This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.PagesSection	Provides programmatic access to the pages Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema) section of the configuration file. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.ProcessModelSection	Configures the ASP.NET process model settings on an Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.ProfileSection	The ProfileSection class provides a way to programmatically access and modify the profile section of a configuration file. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.ProtocolsSection
System.Web.Configuration.RoleManagerSection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the role management infrastructure of Web applications. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.SecurityPolicySection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the security infrastructure of a Web application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.SessionPageStateSection	Configures the sessionPageState section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.SessionStateSection	Configures the session state for a Web application.
System.Web.Configuration.SiteMapSection	Defines configuration settings that are used to support the infrastructure for configuring, storing, and rendering site navigation. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.SqlCacheDependencySection	Configures the SQL cache dependencies for an ASP.NET application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.TraceSection	Configures the ASP.NET trace service. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.TrustSection	Configures the code-access security level that is applied to an application. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.UrlMappingsSection	Provides programmatic access to the urlMappings configuration section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.WebControlsSection	Configures the webControls section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.WebPartsSection	Provides programmatic access to the webParts configuration file section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Configuration.XhtmlConformanceSection	Configures the xhtmlConformance section. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Web.Mobile.DeviceFiltersSection	Contains the collection of device filters to use in the application.
System.Web.Services.Configuration.WebServicesSection	Represents the webServices element in the configuration file. This element controls the settings of XML Web services.
System.Web.UI.MobileControls.MobileControlsSection	Represents configuration information regarding mobile controls, their adapters, and device filters.
System.Windows.Forms.WindowsFormsSection	Defines a new ConfigurationSection for parsing application settings. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Workflow.Activities.Configuration.ActiveDirectoryRoleFactoryConfiguration	Represents the section in the configuration file that addresses the role class. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Workflow.Activities.ExternalDataExchangeServiceSection	Represents a configuration section that allows you to specify, in a configuration file, a set of services to be added to an instance of ExternalDataExchangeService.
System.Workflow.Runtime.Configuration.WorkflowRuntimeSection
System.Xml.Serialization.Configuration.DateTimeSerializationSection	Handles configuration settings for XML serialization of DateTime instances.
System.Xml.Serialization.Configuration.SchemaImporterExtensionsSection	Handles the configuration for the XmlSchemaImporter class. This class cannot be inherited.
System.Xml.Serialization.Configuration.XmlSerializerSection	Handles the XML elements used to configure XML serialization.

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