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Pav
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Reputation: 25

How to get value from App Settings in Visual Studio

I have 2 connection strings saved in Settings section of the app in Visual Studio.

How do I retrieve those fields in C# as I have only ever used VB and the below code:

My.Settings.*SettingName*

Seems that simple that its hard to find a clear answer for :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2210

Answers (3)

Muhammad Waqas Iqbal
Muhammad Waqas Iqbal

Reputation: 3344

Visual Studio 2017

Code in Controller action (to fetch the settings)

var appsettings = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["EmailSupport"].ToString();
var consettings = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["CRMDBContext"].ToString();

Web.config

Web.config

Things are different for Visual Studio 2019, .net core

Upvotes: 2

大陸北方網友
大陸北方網友

Reputation: 3767

If you have set the Settings in Project->Properties…->Settings, you can access them by Properties.Settings.Default.SettingName.

For more info, you can refer to this answer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/65175118/8335151

Upvotes: 0

Karen Payne
Karen Payne

Reputation: 5117

You could stored the connection string as a key in the configuration file as shown here.

Add a reference for System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager then read setting. In the following it's been done for Entity Framework but can work for conventional data access via a connection and command. You could also add in the data provider in your connection strings. Other than that depending on the project type you could also store information in appsettings.json.

All code below is here. code

Note the constants are in this case done under project properties.

Upvotes: 1

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