Reading keyvalue pairs into dictionary from app.config configSection

Question

I currently have an app.config in an application of mine set up like so:

Answer 1

using ConfigurationManager class you can get whole section from app.config file as Hashtable which you can convert to Dictionary if you want to:

var section = (ConfigurationManager.GetSection("DeviceSettings/MajorCommands") as System.Collections.Hashtable)
                 .Cast()
                 .ToDictionary(n=>n.Key.ToString(), n=>n.Value.ToString());

you'll need to add reference to System.Configuration assembly