Using Web.Config - Not working??

[Paladine]

Hi folks, I have set the appSettings Tag in the web.config file to hold my database connection string.

Like so:
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<appSettings>
<add key="strConn" value="Provider = Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\Northwind.mdb;User

ID=Admin;Password=;" />
</appSettings>
<system.web>
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But when I try to use the following line in the code behind I get the following error message:

code:
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OleDbConnection MyConn = new OleDbConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("strConn"));
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Error Message:
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'System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' denotes a 'property' where a 'method' was expected
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Now I have used the same method in VB.Net and it works fine, but this error message has be completely stumped.

I appreciate any assistance with this.

Thanks


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Paladine

 

[AtomicChip]

If you're using c#, the indexer (I think they're called that anyways...) for objects is defined by [], not ().

You'll want to be using ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["strConn"];

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[Paladine]

Thanks AtomicChip!

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Paladine