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

Not sure what you mean about the connection strings.

Calling WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings returns a System.Configuration.ConnectionStringSettingsCollection, which is the same as you would get if you called ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings.

Otherwise, as XOR says, it's designed to handle multiple hierarchical web.configs, combining them as required as you move around the folders in an application.