Web Service web.config variables from dll in bin folder
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Hi all, I have a question regarding web services and configuration files. Platform: .Net Framework , code behind c#. Scenario: I have a web service which when i publish, creates a bin folder. All normal. Now, in that bin folder i have a dll which is effectively my data access layer, CRUD for databases etc. Now i use ConfigurationManager.GetSection("AppConfig") within this dll in order to get database connection strings, which the dll brings out from the web service web.config file. File Structure: <My Web Service Folder> --><AppData> --><bin>--><My Data Access Layer DLL> --><web.config(includes data access layer variables)> Within my development environment, this works like a charm, using ConfigurationManager.GetSection("AppConfig") from my dll to get out the appconfig section from my web.config and then searching the nodes in order to find the right key. Example of web.config: <AppConfig> <Configs use="true"> <add key="Databases" use="true" /> </Configs> <!-- Web Service Configuration Settings--> <Databases> <ConnectionStrings> <add key="<MY KEY NAME>" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" value="<MY CONNECTION STRING>" /> </ConnectionStrings> </Databases> </AppConfig> So far so good. Now i am testing a deployment of this system on a virtual pc. I copy and paste the c:\initpub\<mywebservice> folder into the c:\inetpub of the virtual pc. I try and run it and it fails. After inserting debugging into the code to see where it is failing, I found out that ConfigurationManager.GetSection("AppConfig") is actually returning null instead of the appconfig section from the web.config. Does anybody know why this is happening ? Please excuse the length of the post but was needed to explain the situation. James