System.ServiceModel.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection does not exist

Question

Based on the instructions in this link for enabling logging of PII...
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730318(v=vs.90).aspx
None my versions - 3.5 -4.5.1 of .NET has a class System.ServiceModel.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection
The only class with that name that exists is System.Transactions.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection
I can only assume this is why it is not possible to add that section to machine.config, can anybody confirm this please?
If so, then where should this section go in machine.config to enable PII logging?
Thanks
Jon

Answer 1

The System.ServiceModel.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection class is indeed not public.
But you can still add the enableLoggingKnownPii setting to a configuration file if this is what you want:
Configuration machineConfig = ConfigurationManager.OpenMachineConfiguration();
System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceModelSectionGroup section = machineConfig.GetSectionGroup("system.serviceModel") as System.ServiceModel.Configuration.ServiceModelSectionGroup;
foreach (ConfigurationSection s in section.Sections) {
if(s.GetType().ToString().Equals("System.ServiceModel.Configuration.MachineSettingsSection"))
string xml = s.SectionInformation.GetRawXml();
if (xml == null)
xml = string.Empty;
s.SectionInformation.SetRawXml(xml + "<machineSettings enableLoggingKnownPii=\"true\"/>");
machineConfig.Save();
The other option is to just open the machine.config file in Notepad and add the enableLoggingKnownPii attribute manually:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2325473/where-is-machine-config
Hope that helps.
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