Getting garbage when reading Web.Config

Discussion in 'Site Programming, Development and Design' started by mhenrydpai, Apr 9, 2013.

  1. I added this code to my page load event:

    lblMessage.Text = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings(0).ToString

    To get a database connection string -- but it returns garbage

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  2. Hi

    Have you tried this way ?

    Code:
    using System.Web.Configuration;
    ...
    lblMessage.Text = WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["TheKeyName"].ToString()

    web.config :

    Code:
    <configuration>
           ....
         <appSettings>
           <add key="TheKeyName" value="ConnectionStringValue"/>
         </appSettings>
        ....
    </configuration>
     

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