How to retrieve web.config setting in web application subfolder
问题 I have a subfolder in my web application. It's not a separate application, just a subfolder, but it has its own web.config. There is an aspx page in that subfolder which needs to access a setting in the web.config file in its own folder. When I call ConfigurationManager.GetSection("settingname") from a static initializer on that aspx page, it returns null. Why might this happen? Could it be that my setting name is wrong or that the application root web.config is being accessed instead of the