App.Config file in console application C#

Question

I have a console application in which I want to write the name of a file.

Process.Start("blah.bat"); 

Normally, I would have something like that in windows application by writing the name of the file 'blah.bat' to Settings file in Properties.
However, here I didn't find any Settings file and I added an app.config for the same purpose.

I am not sure what to write here in app.config, that would lead to me to achieve similar thing as in Windows Forms.

For eg: In windows forms. Process.Start(Properties.Settings.Default.BatchFile);
where BatchFile is a string in settings file in Properties.

Answer 1

You can add a reference to System.Configuration in your project and then:

using System.Configuration;

then

string sValue = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["BatchFile"];

with an app.config file like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration>    <appSettings>        <add key="BatchFile" value="blah.bat" />    </appSettings> </configuration> 

Answer 2

For .NET Core, add System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager from NuGet manager.
And read appSetting from App.config

<appSettings>   <add key="appSetting1" value="1000" /> </appSettings> 

Add System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager from NuGet Manager

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("appSetting1")