I'm just finishing up Chapter 12 of the Begining ASP.Net 1.1 with VB 2003. The chapter has us take the code out of default.aspx file and put it in a default.aspx.vb class file.

Not a problem except that my ConfigurationSetting

  Dim connectionString As String = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionStrin g")

to the database via the web.config file no longer works. (The actual database connection string is defined in the web.config file.)

I get an error message that ConfigurationSettings is not defined. All worked great until I moved the functions to the .vb file.

Question: How can I continue to use the web.config file application settings when moving the code to a class file. (Authors don't cover it in the book.)

Cheers,

Nick

Hello,

You did include the System.Configuration namespace correct? In addition, you can also do this to retrieve a value from the configuration settings:

Dim objKey as System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSett ings
Dim connectionString As String = objKey.Get("ConnectionString")

Brian

Thanks ... I needed to Import the System.Configuration Namespace.

Works great now -- guess I need to get a reference document that gives an overview of which Namespaces are required for which situation.


Cheers,

Nick