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    <p>I have a set of custom XML configuration management classes in .NET.</p> <p>There are two configuration scopes in my application:</p> <p><strong>User</strong>: the setting applies to the user regardless of the account she's logged into. Stored in a XML config file in the user's directory.</p> <p><strong>User/Account:</strong> the setting applies to the user when logged into a particular account. Stored in a XML config file in the user's directory under an account specific sub-directory.</p> <p>The two XML documents have the same structure and can be modified by hand. When the application starts up, I read the XML config from the user's profile and the XML config from the User/Account directory. I then merge the two XML documents into a single XDocument and then deserialize the XML into objects modeled after the XDocument's sections. If there is a User/Account-level setting present, it should override the User-level setting. Example: </p> <p><strong>User file:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;FileSettings&gt; &lt;DownloadPath&gt;C:\downloads&lt;/DownloadPath&gt; &lt;UploadPath&gt;C:\uploads&lt;/UploadPath&gt; &lt;/FileSettings&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>User/Account file for account XYZ:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;FileSettings&gt; &lt;DownloadPath&gt;C:\newlocation\xyz\mystuff&lt;/DownloadPath&gt; &lt;/FileSettings&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Result after merge:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;FileSettings&gt; &lt;DownloadPath&gt;C:\newlocation\xyz\mystuff&lt;/DownloadPath&gt; &lt;UploadPath&gt;C:\uploads&lt;/UploadPath&gt; &lt;/FileSettings&gt; </code></pre> <p>In the above example, a FileSettings object with 2 properties - DownloadPath and UploadPath will be instantiated from the section. </p> <p><strong>Here's my issue:</strong> I have no idea which config file (i.e., scope) the DownloadPath and UploadPath came from. As a result, when the object needs to serialize again, it doesn't know which properties go in which file. </p> <p><strong>Question:</strong> What's the best way to store the "source," on a property-by-property basis, so that I can ensure a setting gets written to the same config file that it was read from?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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