Hello,

I can't get my ASP.NET application to read some appSettings from the machine.config file. I can get my VB.NET application to read it, but not ASP.NET.

More specifically, I have a class library that has an app.config file in it with the connection string in that file. I have other information in the machine.config file that I am retrieving. When I test the class library, it retrieves the information via the app.config file. However, when I use the class libary in the ASP.NET account, first off it uses the web.config file instead of the app.config file, and second it doesn't get any information from the machine.config file.

Any ideas what is happening?

Thanks,

Brian Mains

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I should also say that the class library and ASP.NET applications are in separate projects, and the ASP.NET project makes a reference to the class library. I don't know if this makes a difference or not.

Thanks,

Brian Mains

Both a windows forms application and a web forms application should get info out of machine.config. If it doesn't then maybe there's a problem with the .net setup on your machine.

Windows forms applications get use app.config, but it's turned into <myApplicationName>.config when you compile it. However, web forms applications use web.config and it stays as it is.

Are you sure that you are dealing with the right machine.config? Do you have 2 versions of the framework running? Could you be changing the wrong one?

Peter
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I modified the machine.config under <Windows>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\... config folder for the most recent version. There were two version folders, but the older version didn't have a machine.config (am only running one version). That's the only machine.config file that I'm aware of. Is there another one?

No, that is it. Only one. I was thinking maybe you had the wrong version. You shouldn't need to do anything other than change the machine.config file. ASP.net will reset/restart correctly when that file changes. If something you put in there isn't working, I can't imagine what it could be. Triple check your syntax although incorrect syntax should cause something to fault.

Peter
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