I want to use WestWind Application Configuration to load my default app.config file. And, then manipulate the object in memory instead of saving the changes in the app.config file itself.

If I can do this, how? Is there any sample code to load existing app config into the object instead of using ConfigurationManager?

Currently, when i use default .net configuration object, any change straight goes into the actual config file instead of being in memory.

Any help would be appreciated.

The default behavior tries to write configuration data that's missing to the config file - if permissions allow. So if the config is not there or there are missing properties it'll write that for the configuration file provider. It won't however automatically write any changes you make unless you explicitly call .Write() on the object. So if that's happening somewhere your code is writing out the changes.

+++ Rick ---

Thanks for the prompt response Rick. Appreciate it, I found that one of the workflows was actually calling the save method!