Reading a setting from App.config or Web.config is a pretty common task. Here's a class that makes this loads easier: AppSettingsUtil
From: https://drewnoakes.com/code/util/app-settings-util/
Authored by Drew Noakes, February 2005. Use freely, though keep this message in the source intact and report any bugs to me. I also appreciate seeing extensions, or simply hearing that you're using these classes. You may not copyright this work, though may use it in commercial/copyrighted works. Happy coding.