I receiving the error and in the local window I am seeing for both conSettings and connectionString value of null. I am right to say ConfigurationManager is null and I need
I too faced the same problem even after multiple scrutinizing the app.config files and my code for error, but i didn't found any errors in my code. Eventually i found a silly mistake that my compiler had by default taken the application configuration file name as 'app1.config', and when i changed it to 'app.config' every thing just worked fine for me.
Hope it will help.