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In the .Net framework, ConfigurationManager is a built-in object that provides access to configuration files.

The ConfigurationManager class includes members that enable you to perform the following tasks:

Read a section from a configuration file.

Read and write configuration files as a whole.

Support configuration tasks, such as: section information, property information etc...

In addition to working with existing configuration information, you can create and work with custom configuration elements by extending the built-in configuration types such as the ConfigurationElement, ConfigurationElementCollection, ConfigurationProperty, and ConfigurationSection classes.

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AppSettings get value from .config file

I'm not able to access values in configuration file. Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None); var clientsFilePath = config.AppSettings.Settings["ClientsFilePath"].Value; // the second line gets…
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How to find path of active app.config file?

I'm trying to finish this exception handler: if (ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"]==null) { string pathOfActiveConfigFile = ...? throw new ConfigurationErrorsException( "You either forgot to set the connection…
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How to check if an appSettings key exists?

How do I check to see if an Application Setting is available? i.e. app.config and in the…
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What's the difference between the WebConfigurationManager and the ConfigurationManager?

What's the difference between the WebConfigurationManager and the ConfigurationManager? When should I use one over the other? UPDATED I just looked at the WebConfigurationManager, and for some reason, you can't access the connection strings as you…
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ConfigurationManager.AppSettings - How to modify and save?

It might sound too trival to ask and I do the same thing as suggested in articles, yet it doesn't work as expected. Hope someone can point me to the right direction. I would like to save the usersettings per AppSettings. Once the Winform is closed I…
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Java configuration framework

I'm in the process of weeding out all hardcoded values in a Java library and was wondering what framework would be the best (in terms of zero- or close-to-zero configuration) to handle run-time configuration? I would prefer XML-based configuration…
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Does ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Key] read from the web.config file each time?

I'm wondering how the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[Key] works. Does it read from the physical file each time I need a key? If so, should I be reading all the app settings of my web.config in a cache and then read from it? Or does ASP.NET or IIS…
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How to get the values of a ConfigurationSection of type NameValueSectionHandler

I'm working with C#, Framework 3.5 (VS 2008). I'm using the ConfigurationManager to load a config (not the default app.config file) into a Configuration object. Using the Configuration class, I was able to get a ConfigurationSection, but I could not…
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Error: The name 'ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the current context

I have included the following statement in my Visual C# Console Application (Visual Studio 2005 .NET 2.0 Framework) using System.Configuration; and I am using the following statement in my…
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Loading System.ServiceModel configuration section using ConfigurationManager

Using C# .NET 3.5 and WCF, I'm trying to write out some of the WCF configuration in a client application (the name of the server the client is connecting to). The obvious way is to use ConfigurationManager to load the configuration section and write…
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System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager not available?

In a VS2005 C# project I have added a reference to System.configuration. In the object browser, I can see the System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager. In Intellisense System.Configuration only has the old ConfigurationSettings, and not…
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ConfigurationManager.AppSettings Caching

We know that IIS caches ConfigurationManager.AppSettings so it reads the disk only once until the web.config is changed. This is done for performance purposes. Someone at: http://forums.asp.net/p/1080926/1598469.aspx#1598469 stated that .NET…
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ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration - loads the wrong file?

I have added multiple app.config (each with a differet name) files to a project, and set them to copy to the output directory on each build. I try and access the contents of each file using this: System.Configuration.Configuration o =…
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ConfigurationManager not found

I am new to VS 3.5 and I am writing a console app that needs to pull some key values from the app.config file. I have: Imports System.Configuration and I am trying to reference ConfigurationManager.AppSettings but this generates an error: Name…
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The problem with NUnit and app.config

When i run a simple test on connection to DB check i receive an error in NUnit: [Test] public void TestConn() { string connectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["FertigungRead"].ConnectionString; SqlConnection connection =…
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