AppSettings in App or Web Config Using a Linked File

Question

I\'m trying to reference some common config settings between a Windows Service and an ASP.NET MVC website. I am doing this by using the file attribute on appSettings in eit

Answer 1

I use this to access another .exe's config file, not sure whether it will work with a MVC project, but this might get you closer:

string proj2Exe = @"C:\projects\proj2\bin\Debug\proj2.exe";
Configuration proj2Config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(proj2Exe);
string mysetting = proj2Config .AppSettings.Settings["ThatSetting"].Value;