read web.config from another assembly using t4

Question

Does anyone have a good example or helper class that would allow me to read the connection string in a web application from a T4 template residing in ANOTHER assembly referenced by the web application. I am generating some code from the database that it references and i would appresiate some help on how to get the connection string for this use. ive read George Js example here however it only works when the template resides in the web app, please help!!!

Answer 1

var path = Host.ResolvePath(@"../Web.config");  
var map = new ExeConfigurationFileMap { ExeConfigFilename = path };           
var config =  ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(
                                            map,ConfigurationUserLevel.None);  
var appSettings = config.AppSettings;  
var connectionStrings = config.ConnectionStrings.ConnectionStrings;

Answer 2

You could try to do something like that:

var config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration("../somePathTo/web.config")
// use the config to get values like: config.AppSettings