using ConfigurationManager.GetSection("AppConfig") in web services.

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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 find 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