Light Custom Configuration Section

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Configuration;

namespace WebServiceClient
{
    /*URLElement class below represents a bundle of properties (URL, password, etc) for each endpoint we need to send to... 
  
    And the following custom app.configuration section allows us to maintain a list of these URLElements. 
    copied from here: http://www.abhisheksur.com/2011/09/writing-custom-configurationsection-to.html 
    and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1755421/c-sharp-appsettings-is-there-a-easy-way-to-put-a-collection-into-appsetting 
    The basic gist is 3 fairly light implementation classes -- 
    URLElement = individual elements, URLCollection = collection of elements, and URLSection = new custom app.config section. 
    */
    public class URLSection : ConfigurationSection
    {
        //nugget: it seems that the [ConfigurationProperty()] attribute does not work on a static property (maybe that's true for all attributes??), 
        //so the _URLs *instance* propery satisfies this attribute requirement, but made it private since don't plan on using it directly. 
        //then exposing the URLs collection as a public *static* property. 
        //this rigamarole merely allows for the slighty more succint "URLSection.URLs" from the calling code rather than "URLSection.urlSection.URLs" 
        public static URLCollection URLs { get { return _urlSection._URLs; } }

        [ConfigurationProperty("URLs")]
        private URLCollection _URLs { get { return this["URLs"] as URLCollection; } }
        private static readonly URLSection _urlSection = ConfigurationManager.GetSection("URLSection") as URLSection;
    }

    //nugget: the xml tag name of the element level nodes must be "" by default 
    //to change to something else, it looks like one must implement a few more overrides like the ElementName & ConfigurationElementCollectionType properties. 
    //leaving it as the default seems just fine for current needs. 
    public class URLCollection : ConfigurationElementCollection
    {
        public URLElement this[int index] { get { return (URLElement)BaseGet(index); } }
        protected override ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement() { return new URLElement(); }
        protected override object GetElementKey(ConfigurationElement element) { return ((URLElement)(element)).Name; }
    }

    public class URLElement : ConfigurationElement
    {
        [ConfigurationProperty("Name", IsKey = true, IsRequired = true)]
        public string Name
        {
            get { return (string)this["Name"]; }
            set { this["Name"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Url", IsRequired = true)]
        public string Url
        {
            get { return (string)this["Url"]; }
            set { this["Url"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("ContextID", IsRequired = true)]
        public string ContextID
        {
            get { return (string)this["ContextID"]; }
            set { this["ContextID"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("Password", IsRequired = true)]
        public string Password
        {
            get { return (string)this["Password"]; }
            set { this["Password"] = value; }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty("IgnoreWebServiceException", DefaultValue = false)]
        public bool IgnoreWebServiceException
        {
            get { return (bool)this["IgnoreWebServiceException"]; }
            set { this["IgnoreWebServiceException"] = value; }
        }

    }

}