Web Services and Web.config

[samsmithnz]

In an ASP.NET project I would add this to my web.config:

 <appSettings>
<!--Webservice server location-->
<add key="ConnectionString" value="[My Conn string...]" />
 </appSettings>

And then this to ASPX page and I would be able to retrieve the value:

strConn = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("ConnectionString")

But in a web service this doesn't work for me. It says "Name 'ConfigurationSettings' is not declared".

 

What am I doing wrong?

[Bucky]

ConfigurationSettings is a member of the System.Configuration

namespace. Add an Imports statement your code file to include

this namespace. You may have to add a project reference to

include this namespace.

[samsmithnz]

Ahhhhh that makes perfect sense too.

 

Why is it a default option in ASP.NET, but off in Web Services? I would have thought they would be equally useful...