Question

I’m trying to get the key that was added to the app settings in web.config file :

<add key="ComponentXML" value="~/App_Data/Components.XML"/>

and i’m trying to retrieve the value in this manner:

           string componentsXMLFile = "ComponentXML";
     ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[componentsXMLFile ]);

But it is freaking out:

Could not find a part of the path 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\~\App_Data\Components.XML

which is not at all part of my project folder, it is referring to something else

how can i solve this ? I’m stuck with this problem from past 3 hours.

Please help me

Thanks in anticipation

Answer 1

This code resides in the asp.net web page and this line did the trick for me.

Server.MapPath(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[componentsXMLFile]);

I found the source of answer from here after some more googling.

Thanks