Separate ConnectionStrings and mailSettings from web.config? Possible?

Question

Is it possible to separate ConnectionStrings and mailSettings from web.config?

Devel environment has different IP addresses for connectionstrings and smtp mails because of development and testing. We dont want to do tests and devel using live machines and live IP addresses.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

I found the answer on MSDN:

<configuration>
    <connectionStrings configSource="connections.config"/> 
</configuration>

With file connections.config containing

<connectionStrings>
   <add name="name" connectionString="conn_string" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
   <add name="name2" connectionString="conn_string2" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>