Provide access credentials in application settings

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How to read the access credentials.

Access credentials can be read from the file by using the App.Config file. These details can be picked up automatically from App.Config by using a default client declaration such as: 


AmazonS3Config S3Config = new AmazonS3Config
{
  // replace below url with your endpoint url
  ServiceURL = "http://sample.endpointurl.com"
}
AmazonS3Client client = new Amazon.S3.AmazonS3Client(S3Config);

The AWSProfileName key declares the profile name and the AWSProfileLocation declares the location of the credentials file. The properties can be set as follows.


<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="AWSProfileName" value="development"/>
    <add key="AWSProfilesLocation" value="C:\aws_service_credentials\credentials"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

The access credentials can then be read from the system properties as follows.


AWSCredentials credentials = new StoredProfileAWSCredentials("development");
IAmazonS3 s3Client = new AmazonS3Client(credentials);