6 February 2007
Nini - A .NET Configuration Library
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: Random Websites .
Nini was written because I grew tired of having to re-invent the wheel every time I switched from one development environment to another. I believe that the concept of dealing with configuration files should be simple. So I designed the Nini library to be as concise as possible while providing enough functionality so that it appeals to programmers that work in multiple environments.
The Nini library borrows from the ideas of other programming projects. Essentially it is a abstraction layer over multiple types of configuration data. Look at the diagram below. You can see that Nini is simply a thin API that abstracts the access of multiple configuration files. If you have your own proprietary configuration file you can write your own “driver” that implements the IConfigSource interface. Nini already has support for several configuration file types, and it will be adding more as time goes on.