Accessing Keys in the appSection of Web.Config

[Shaitan00]

I am trying to store some information (like application paths) in the web.config file of my ASP
C# project. To that end I did the following:

WEB.CONFIG SOURCE CODE:
?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="ApplicationDir" Value="C:\Application"/>
<add key="DatabaseDir" Value="\Database\"/>
<add key="UpdateDir" Value="\UpdatePackages\"/>
</appSettings>

<system.web>
...(lot of stuff that was generated automatically)...
</system.web>
</configuration>

Note that I manually added the <appSettings> field (it was not automatically there), is it possible I placed it in the wrong part of the web.config file?


C# SOURCE CODE:
string appDir = ConfigurationSettings.appSettings["ApplicationDir"];
string updDir = ConfigurationSettings.appSettings["UpdateDir"];
string SaveLocation = appDir + updDir + fn;

I use this code to create the SavePath for uploaded Update Files.
However, on compile, I get the following error:
The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationSettings' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Nothing appears in VC# when I type ConfigurationSettings. (should give me a list of choices)


Any clues why?
Is it because I added it manually and need to add something else to the XML file?

 

[mocella]

Try something like this:

string appDir = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get( "ApplicationDir" );
string updDir = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get( "UpdateDir" );

string saveLocation = appDir + updDir + fn;

 

[Shaitan00]

Using:
string appDir = ConfigurationSettings.appSettings.Get( "ApplicationDir" );
I get the same error:
The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationSettings' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Seems like the problem is with ConfigurationSettings.
In C# when I do "ConfigurationSettings." should a list of choices appear?

 

[mocella]

Oh, at the top of your class, add:

using System.Configuration;

I thought I added that in my last post, sorry.