ConnectionString from app.config of a DLL is null

Question

I have a class library that contains a valid connectionString inside the app.config. Inside that class library I want to use it with

ConfigurationManager.Con         


        

Answer 1

In case if you don't waana use ConfigurationManager

If i assume the config file is mydll.dll.config i can load it as XElement and parse it using Linq as

var xe = XElement.Load("mydll.dll.config");
var connectionString = xe.Descendants("connectionStrings")
     .Elements("add")
     .FirstOrDefault(a => a.Attribute("name").Value == Name)
     .Attribute("connectionString").Value;

where Name is the connectionString name in the XML. Without using the ConfigurationManager import and other stuffs. The only requirement for this to make sure that the config file sit next to the dll.