What's the difference between the WebConfigurationManager and the ConfigurationManager?

Question

What\'s the difference between the WebConfigurationManager and the ConfigurationManager?

When should I use one over the other?

Answer 1

Although WebConfigurationManager is located in the System.Web assembly the ConnectionStringSettingsCollection that it returns is located in System.Configuration.

If you are getting the error

Cannot apply indexing with [] to an expression of type 'System.Configuration.ConnectionStringSettingsCollection'

while trying to access the array index...

WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["Name"].ConnectionString

make sure you have a reference to assembly System.Configuration