Best practices to build a highly configurable software product.

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Hello. I am working on a software product that can substantially change behavior based on the configuration & meta-data supplied.

I would like to know best practices to architect / build a highly configurable software product. Considering that there are substantial number of configuration parameters, I'd like to look at something that will not affect the performance before I look at dependency injection. My platform is .Net ... I seek recommendations on architecture / design and implementations fronts.

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