To access my web config keys I always make a static class in my application. It means I can access them wherever I require and I'm not using the strings all over my application (if it changes in the web config I'd have to go through all the occurrences changing them). Here's a sample:
using System.Configuration;
public static class AppSettingsGet
{
public static string myKey
{
get { return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["myKey"].ToString(); }
}
public static string imageFolder
{
get { return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["imageFolder"].ToString(); }
}
// I also get my connection string from here
public static string ConnectionString
{
get { return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString; }
}
}
I am siteConfiguration class for calling all my appSetting like this way. I share it if it will help anyone.
add the following code at the "web.config"
<configuration>
<configSections>
<!-- some stuff omitted here -->
</configSections>
<appSettings>
<add key="appKeyString" value="abc" />
<add key="appKeyInt" value="123" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
Now you can define a class for getting all your appSetting value. like this
using System;
using System.Configuration;
namespace Configuration
{
public static class SiteConfigurationReader
{
public static String appKeyString //for string type value
{
get
{
return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("appKeyString");
}
}
public static Int32 appKeyInt //to get integer value
{
get
{
return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("appKeyInt").ToInteger(true);
}
}
// you can also get the app setting by passing the key
public static Int32 GetAppSettingsInteger(string keyName)
{
try
{
return Convert.ToInt32(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get(keyName));
}
catch
{
return 0;
}
}
}
}
Now add the reference of previous class and to access a key call like bellow
string appKeyStringVal= SiteConfigurationReader.appKeyString;
int appKeyIntVal= SiteConfigurationReader.appKeyInt;
int appKeyStringByPassingKey = SiteConfigurationReader.GetAppSettingsInteger("appKeyInt");