.NET config file for Custom event Provider?

Hello all,

I'm creating a custom event provider for SSNS 2005 using .NET. My custom provider needs to get configuration info from a file (e.g. app.config).

Is there any (acceptable?) way of making my config file data available to my provider if I'd like my provider to be hosted by SSNS? Perhaps I could hack it by making or adding to an app.config for some part of SSNS (the instance service executable perhaps?) but that doesn't sound appetizing.

The only thing I can think of is to force my event provider to run as a standalone EXE (which means a standard app.config should work).

Help?

OK, I found that it is quite simple to use a specific config file for my DLL (especially using EntLib).

However, issues with codebases and so forth for dependent assemblies has turned me to switch. I'm now using a standalone event provider because it avoids all these issues around config files, dependencies, and so forth (everyhing is simply in one standard bin folder).