Wrong App.config being loaded

Question

I have a .NET 3.5 class library I built that reads an App.config file for values it needs. It can pull the config values just fine when I test it in Visual Studio. To test

Answer 1

I can't find a way to avoid getting the app.config for the calling dll/exe etc. The only way I have found is to use a hardcoded path and load it that way. Here is code I am using to do that:

using System.Configuration;
...
public static KeyValueConfigurationCollection getAppSettingsFromAppConfig(String appConfigPath) {
    ExeConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
    fileMap.ExeConfigFilename = appConfigPath;
    Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(fileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
    AppSettingsSection section = config.AppSettings;
    KeyValueConfigurationCollection appsettings = section.Settings;
    return appsettings;
}

You then have a collection of KeyValueConfigurationElement, which you can use .Value to get the string from config file with.