Hi,

I am using .NET 1.1 and trying to read key/value pairs from the App.config file that I have defined as below:

<configuration>

<appSettings>

<add key ="filetype" value = "EPI"/>

</appSettings>

</configuration

I am using the following code snippet to read the key value into C# but I am unable to get it to work.

public static string getFileType(){

string filetype = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("filetype");

return filetype;

}

Could anyone tell me how to make this code work. Please note that I am using .NET 1.1 and cannot use the Configuration Manager available in .NET 2.0 .

Thanks

Your syntax for ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings in C# is slightly off... instead of using parentheses... try some square brackets:

string filetype = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["filetype"];

If this doesn’t work... what sort of error are you getting when this fails

You should use:

string filetype = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings [ "filetype" ] ;

AppSettings is a Collection not an function.

IN this way you can resolve your problme

1. Make your configuration file like this {applicationname}.exe.config . Let say your application exe name is test so the configuration file name will be test.exe.config.

 2 .Put the configuration file in the same directory where is your EXE is present .

3. use following line in your code 

string str = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["filetype"];

 By this you can can get it . I am wokring with this kind of applications and working for me . If you need any help then mail me . I am also working wiht VS 2003 . If you need sample application i can post you

Regards

jainvikr2

jainvikr2,

One comment on point 1:

If you create an app.config file it will be converted to {applicationname}.exe.config during build, and it will be placed in de bin-directory where your exe resides.

That is correct , there will be {applicationname}.exe.config file will be in bin folder of application .

I given first step for deployment purpose. Lie you want to distribute your application to some one then what are things is involved .

Thanks

jainvikr2