External config file access

I'm currently using an external config file to organise how settings in this project are running. Thusly, I have an entry in the web.config to the effect of:

<section name="acmeConstruction" type="System.Configuration.NameValueFileSectionHandler" />

and a reference to the external file:

<acmeConstruction configSource="App_Config\acmeConstruction.config"/>

containing

<acmeConstruction>
 <add key="Homepage Videos" value="/sitecore/content/Home/Sitewide Content/Homepage Videos"/>
 <add key="acmeConstruction" value="abc123"/>
</acmeConstruction>

Of course, now accessing said settings wasn't quite as easy to figure out.


It turns out that you can use

var nvc = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("acmeConstruction") as System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection;

and access the result quite simply. It was surprising the amount of documentation I had to search to find this.