Programmatically add dependAssembly to runtime \ assemblyBinding

Question

I am trying to add a new dependent assembly to the Web.config file at runtime. So far my current code has

XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager (WebConfigDoc.NameTable); manager.AddNamespace("bindings", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"); XmlNode root = WebConfigDoc.DocumentElement; XmlNode assemblyBinding = root.SelectSingleNode("//bindings:assemblyBinding", manager); XmlNode newAssemblyBinding = WebConfigDoc.ImportNode(GetElement(MyNewNode()), true); assemblyBinding.AppendChild(newAssemblyBinding); } private string MyNewNode() { string Node = "<dependentAssembly>" + "<assemblyIdentity name=\"newone\" "+ " publicKeyToken=\"608967\" />" + "<bindingRedirect oldVersion=\"1\" newwVersion=\"2\" />" + "</dependentAssembly>"; return Node ; } 

This works, but the result of node is this

 <dependentAssembly xmlns=""> <assemblyIdentity name="newone" publicKeyToken="608967" /> <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1" newVersion="2" /> </dependentAssembly> 

I do not need the xmlns="" attribute.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not sure why its work cannot be an XML serializer. The namespace is correct because the assembly object of the XmlNode XML node is not null, and the code I specified is what I do and nothing more. This may be due to the GetElement method, which creates an XmlNode from the string and returns a new document element.

 private static XmlElement GetElement(string xml) { //convert string to xml element XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); doc.LoadXml(xml); return doc.DocumentElement; } 

I still achieved the result using XPathNavigator. My final version.

 XmlNamespaceManager manager = new XmlNamespaceManager (WebConfigDoc.NameTable); manager.AddNamespace("bindings", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"); XmlNode root = WebConfigDoc.DocumentElement; XPathNavigator assemblyBinding = root.CreateNavigator(). SelectSingleNode("//bindings:assemblyBinding", manager); assemblyBinding.AppendChild(MyNewNode()); private string MyNewNode() { string Node = "<dependentAssembly>" + "<assemblyIdentity name=\"newone\" "+ " publicKeyToken=\"608967\" />" + "<bindingRedirect oldVersion=\"1\" newwVersion=\"2\" />" + "</dependentAssembly>"; return Node ; } 

Thanks for the help.

Answer 2

The problem is that the new node you are adding is in "without namespace", while the parent element is in the namespace "urn: schemas-microsoft-com: asm.v1".

Decision

Edit

  string Node = "<dependentAssembly>" + 

before

  string Node = "<dependentAssembly xmlns='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1'>" +