How to open a config file app settings using ConfigurationManager?

Question

My config file is located here:

"~/Admin/Web.config"

I tried opening it via the below code but it didn't work:

var physicalFilePath = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Admin/Web.config");
var configMap = new ConfigurationFileMap(physicalFilePath);
var configuration = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedMachineConfiguration(configMap);
var appSettingsSection = (AppSettingsSection)configuration.GetSection("appSettings");

when appsettings line runs, it throws the below error message:

Unable to cast object of type 'System.Configuration.DefaultSection' to type 'System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection'.

My Web.Config looks like below:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
  <appSettings>
    <add key="AdminUsername" value="Test1"/>
    <add key="AdminPassword" value="Test2"/>
  </appSettings>
  <connectionStrings></connectionStrings>
</configuration>

How could I get the appsettings?

slolife · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-07 18:47:10Z

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For web-app, you need to use System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager class and no need to set absolute path.

var web=System.Web.Configuration.WebConfigurationManager
          .OpenWebConfiguration("~/admin/web.config");

String appValue=web.AppSettings.Settings["key"].Value;

edited Apr 7, 2014 at 18:47

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answered Oct 19, 2011 at 10:04

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2 Comments

The Light Over a year ago

I'm getting this error when accessing its AppSettings property: Unable to cast object of type 'System.Configuration.DefaultSection' to type 'System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection'.

kudlatiger Over a year ago

How to open .net core appsettings.json ?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:58:22Z

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If you are looking for adding some stuff to the Web.config, and then reading it from the code. What you need is Custom Configuration Sections in Web.config

Look here: How do I define custom web.config sections with potential child elements and attributes for the properties? and here: Creating Custom Configuration Sections in Web.config - 4GuysFromRolla.com

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:58

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answered Oct 19, 2011 at 10:02

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