Question : Application Settings are not functioning

I have an application that has been using User Configuration settings that were defined in the Designer/Settings tab.  The application reads them fine.     I recently added some Application settings by directly editing the app.config XML file, using lines simialr to this:



Since then, the application doesn't read the new AppSettings.  It still reads the User settings, just not the App settings.  (using System.Configuration; is declared). When the application encounters:

string engrNamesPath = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["EngrNamesPath"];

it returns "null"

I am stumped.

Answer : Application Settings are not functioning

I have found a way to fix this problem.

If I declare a reference to "application name".Properties by declaring:

using MyApp.Properties;

Then you can get the values added to the "Settings" tab of the application properties, i.e.,

string engrNamesPath = Settings.Default.EngrNamesPath;



The way I was trying to use:

using System.Configuration;

then

string engrNamesPath = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["EngrNamesPath"];  

returns Null for some reason.