Reading settings from app.config or web.config in .NET

For a sample app.config file like below: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key=”countoffiles” value=”7″ /> <add key=”logfilelocation” value=”abc.txt” /> </appSettings> </configuration> You read the above application settings using the code shown below: using System.Configuration; You may also need to also add a reference to System.Configuration in your project if there isn’t one already. … Read more