Is there a way to programmatically save values to web.config appSettings without destroying comments and formatting?

This code works, but it destroys comments and formatting 开发者_运维百科in Web.config. Is there a way to write to Web.config that won't destroy formatting?

var webConfig = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
var settings = webConfig.AppSettings.Settings;
settings["Foo"].Value = "Bar";
webConfig.Save();

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Maybe you can open the web.config as a standard xml file and use Xpath to locate the node you want to change.

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You can use Visual Studio API, load Web.config and call Format Document against it