ConfigurationManager & Static Class

Question

I would like to use ConfigurationManager to access some string values from a static class. However, I need to handle specifically the absence of a valu

Answer 1

I'm using something like this:

public static readonly string someStr  = 
        ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["abc"] ?? "default value";

Or to handle empty string:

public static readonly string someStr = 
           !String.IsNullOrEmpty(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["abc"]) ? 
                             ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["abc"] : "default value";