http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2006/11/14/.NET-2.0-Custom-configuration.aspx.NET 2.0 provides a slightly different configuration concept than the previous version .NET 1.1. All new features con be found here . In this post I do not want to provide the description of this concept. More over, I will just show one more featuredenCommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Build: 30619.63)