ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration - loads the wrong file?

Question

I have added multiple app.config (each with a differet name) files to a project, and set them to copy to the output directory on each build.

I try and access the con

Answer 1

To avoid this problem altogether, you can read in the config file as an XML file, for example:

using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;    

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location) + "\\..\\..\\..\\MyWebProject\\web.config");
string value = doc.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("/configuration/appSettings/add[@key='MyKeyName']").Attributes["value"].Value;