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Asked: 2026-06-05T13:52:16+00:00

I have a MVC project that uses foo.dll, but that foo.dll uses smu.dll so

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I have a MVC project that uses foo.dll, but that foo.dll uses smu.dll so basically I never reference smu.dll within my MVC project. The problem I´m faced with is that within my MVC project I want to be able to store ssettings in web.config so that smu.dll will read.

We have tried to use both applicationsettings and appsettings without effect, when I refernce smu.dll directly from MVC or any other program it picks up the settings without a problem. Do settings for smu.dll have to go into foo.dll app.config?

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Hello again friends, and thank you for your answers.

I found out what I was doing wrong after I read the comments. In MVC there is a web.config within the Views-folder and one web.config in the root of the project. When I used sectionGroup and applicationSettings in the “Views”-web.config the config was not read by the smu.dll. I then changed the smu.dll to read appsettings instead, whereas I then put the appSettings into to “root”-web.config, then the config file was read by the dll. I hope this makes sense but I am new to this and am still learning.

Anyway, this is finally working now 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    So, you have an MVC project, and two class libraries (foo & smu) ?

    MVC -> Foo (via project reference)
    Foo -> Smu (via project reference)

    within AppSettings of web.config, you have a setting that smu should pick up?

    Shouldn’t Smu just accept a param, but not care where it comes from e.g.

    if Smu was a data-access class, and it needed a connection string – all it needs to allow the user to do is send it a connection string? so, you could then send that from Foo (as this class can access your config settings) ?

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