Unable to access the appsettings key if config section is present

Question

User1623378095 posted

Hi ,

I am having following config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

<appSettings>
    <add key="IndexPath" value="" />
    <add key="APIUrl" value="http://www.google.com" />
    <add key="Interval" value="3" />
    <add key="ClientSettingsProvider.ServiceUri" value="" />
  </appSettings>

  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,Log4net" />
  </configSections>
  <log4net>
    <root>
      <level value="DEBUG" />
      <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender" />
    </root>
    <appender name="LogFileAppender" type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
      <param name="File" value="E:\log-file.txt" />
      <param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
      <rollingStyle value="Size" />
      <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
      <maximumFileSize value="10MB" />
      <staticLogFileName value="true" />
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
        <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />
      </layout>
    </appender>
  </log4net>  
  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" />
  </startup>
</configuration>

When I ma trying to access using ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["APIUrl"].ToString() then it is giving me error ,but if I remove the configsection and log4net section then it works perfect. Please provide me the solution to access appsettings key in the presence of log4net and configsection.

Thanks ,

Somnath

Answer 1

User-1360095595 posted

Try moving the appsettings block to be before the configsections block. 

Answer 2

User1623378095 posted

sorry ,I was having problem when my appsettings section was beofre configsection .

After shifting to below Configsection my problem was solved.