[MonoDevelop] Accessing configuration files

Ahmed Abdeen Hamed ahmed.elmasri at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 20:23:46 EDT 2010


I managed to include the System.Configuration.dll and I compiled file.
However, I am unable to read from my App.config file. Should I
register the config file somewhere in the project so it can be
accessible?
Ahmed

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
<ahmed.elmasri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> I didn't explicitly reference the System.Configuration.dll. How do I do that?
> Thanks!
> Ahmed
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Alan <alan.mcgovern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I assume you have a "using System.Configuration;' in your .cs file and
>> you also reference System.Configuration.dll when compiling your app?
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
>> <ahmed.elmasri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My apologies for the second email but the correct syntax for the first
>>> line is this:
>>> NameValueCollection appSettings = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings
>>>
>>> Here is the error:
>>> /Users/aabdeen/Projects/console-project/console-project/Main.cs(51,51):
>>> Error CS0103: The name `ConfigurationManager' does not exist in the
>>> current context (CS0103) (console-project)
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed
>>> <ahmed.elmasri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am unable to access the solution configuration file using the C#
>>>> code. For some reason it can't find the classes from the
>>>> System.Configuration reference even though it has been imported via
>>>> using statement. Here is the code snippet:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                NameValueCollection appSettings = Configuration.AppSettings;
>>>>
>>>>                for (int i = 0; i < appSettings.Count; i++)
>>>>                {
>>>>                    Console.WriteLine("Key : {0} Value: {1}",
>>>>                      appSettings.GetKey(i), appSettings[i]);
>>>>                }
>>>>
>>>> Here is the error message:
>>>> /Users/aabdeen/Projects/console-project/console-project/Main.cs(51,51):
>>>> Error CS0103: The name `Configuration' does not exist in the current
>>>> context (CS0103) (console-project)
>>>>
>>>> Any clue?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ahmed
>>>>
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