Fetching connection string from appconfig file in c#

Question

I have the following connection string declared in my app.config file:

Answer 1

Same problem. Based on Merlyn Morgan-Graham and Edward Zhu comments, I rebuilt my project, which used the app.config to create a myapp.exe.config file with the connection string. Original first syntax then worked.

Other problem: Tried using the project properties dialog to modify the connection string and it added "project.My.Mysettings. to the connection string name. Which caused failure.