A look at some of the finer details of Castle ActiveRecord like lazy loading of collections, making use of the SessionScope and some other attributes and properties that are useful

Adding your own configuration values into a config file is really simplified when it comes to using the appsettings section, but do you really need all those key-value pairs clogging up your file and not having any noticable relation to one other? Making use of a custom configuration section allows you to group the settings you want related to each other and even add validation to the key-value pairs. This is a short how-to on getting started with custom sections.