How to use the ConfigurationManager.AppSettings

Question

I\'ve never used the \"appSettings\" before. How do you configure this in C# to use with a SqlConnection, this is what I use for the \"ConnectionStrings\"

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Answer 1

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings is actually a property, so you need to use square brackets.

Overall, here's what you need to do:

SqlConnection con= new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionString"]);

The problem is that you tried to set con to a string, which is not correct. You have to either pass it to the constructor or set con.ConnectionString property.