appSettings and ConfigurationManager.AppSettings issue

Question

I have searched the site, and while I found some very useful information, I couldn\'t figure out what is going on with my code. I have the following web.config:

Answer 1

Does your machine.config have the requisite AppSettings section. It should look something like (version numbers would be different):

Are you sure you're using the correct web.config? What does ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Settings look like?