Question

I coded a C# project, and I configured app.config file as follows:

<appSettings>
   <add key="smUserName" value= "XXX"/>
   <add key="smPassword" value= "XXX"/>
</appSettings>

But then I cannot get the smUserName and smPassword values from app.config:

using System.Configuration;

// more code snipped...

public static string smUserName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("smUserName").ToString();
public static string smPassword = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("smPassword").ToString();

Despite the using System.Configuration statement, compiling this code gives the error “The name ‘ConfigurationManager’ does not exist in the current context”.

Answer 1

If the problem is that the code does not compile, try adding a reference to the System.Configuration assembly.