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

You are almost there - you just have nested your MajorCommands a level too deep. Just change it to this:

And then the following will work for you:

var section = (Hashtable)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("MajorCommands");
Console.WriteLine(section["Reset"]);

Note that this is a Hashtable (not type safe) as opposed to a Dictionary. If you want it to be Dictionary you can convert it like so:

Dictionary dictionary = section.Cast().ToDictionary(d => (string)d.Key, d => (string)d.Value);