Possible to retrive Application Settings in a referenced project?

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I have a main project (presentation layer) containing all of my forms and a data access layer which I am designing to return adapters to my BRL. If I define application settings in the main project, how do I retrieve them in the Data access layer which is referenced by the main presentation layer?

I have tried this:

        Return "Data source=" & ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("TRSDBServer") & "," _
                              & ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("TRSDBPort") & ";Integrated security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=" _
                              & ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("TRSDBName")

but it complains and produces nothing

I have tried this:

 Dim aConfig As Configuration.ConfigurationSettings
    Dim strDBConnectTest As String = aConfig.AppSettings("TRSDBName")

but it complains and produces nothing

This:

        Return My.Settings.Item("TRSDBServer")

complained the least but failed at Runtime, claiming there was no such variable.

This works in my main presentation layer (where the application settings are stored):

objConnection = New SqlConnection("Data source=" & My.Settings.TRSDBServer & "," & My.Settings.TRSDBPort & ";Integrated security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=" & My.Settings.TRSDBName)

I could use my StateControl Class with a public shared string property and just store this from the presentation layer at application startup and use it wherever, but this seems woefully incorrect. Any ideas?