I have not seen into why Microsoft decided to change this. I agree that its not very practical. I’ll have to read on that some time. And maybe do an article about my findings…

Properties.Settings.Default.WhateverKeyNameIs

I hope that helps someone and demonstrates what a noob I am

Thank you

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[1].ToString());

Says: “Specify the connection string either in machine.config or web.config”

System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.Show(System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[0].ToString());

Says: “data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;etc etc”

So my project must think that it’s a website or something, but its a WPF application. Am I horribly confused? I want to retrieve the keys from app.config

I’m so just thinking of doing my own, I’d have got that working in like 5 minutes! Frustration is starting to rise again!!! lol…

Thank you, your code did actually work (well it’s compiling at least), and is easier and to the point than any the other few blogs I was at. I had a follow up problem where it’s not reading the keys. I haven’t gone back to look at it yet though.

Is it just me though? or does this just seem like a really stupid thing to change? What possible reason could Microsoft have for changing it? It’s not like the implementation is any better.

I don’t see good things coming from Microsoft in the next 5.10 or so years, it’s gonna be change after unnecessary change due to their business model which will inevitably flounder…I guess that’s a different topic though.

Thanks heaps for your help, and I will go back to look at my problem soon

I know what you are going through. I have had a lot of problems where people have suggested me the same fix over and over again.

What I’d advise you is to create a new project, add the “System.Configuration” reference and try the sample code given in the post. If that works, you can start migrating your code to the fresh project.

Hope this helps.

Fucking Microsoft man, they’re fucked, why even change this shit….I so wanna quit being a programmer right now…

I could have implemented my own now…all the time i’ve spent trying to figure this shit out that should be EASY…wtf man…

Fuck…can you tell I’m pissed off?