External AppSettings File NOT merging with web.config

Question

In my app, I have a web.config file with an appSettings section. The appSettings section contains a number of keys that the app uses. The appSettings section also contains

Answer 1

You can access multiple config files by using WebConfigurationmanager method. add namespace:

using System.Web.Configuration;

So, to access the appSettings of

../SomeProjectFolder/Environment/Web.config, you can do:

var config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~/SomeProjectFolder/Environment/");
string username = config.AppSettings.Settings["username"].Value;

Hope this helps.