Question

I’ve got a rather odd situation which is bound to something breathtakingly obvious, but it has me stumped.

Quite simply, I’m trying to load some configuration data into my app, as follows:

namespace XMLGrabberCS
{
class Grabber
{

    public static void Main()
    {
        string test = "test";
        string serverName = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServerName"];
        try
        {
            //do stuff...

Pretty straightforward stuff, except that if you query (i.e. via Quick Watch) either variable, you get a variable doesn’t exist in current context error.

If you watch ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ServerName"] it does return the right value…

What on earth is going on here?

Answer 1

Are the strings referenced later on in the code? If not they could be being optimised away (unlikely if you’re in debug, but worth a check).