How to read values from custom section in web.config

Question

I have added a custom section called secureAppSettings to my web.config file:

<configuration>   <configSections>     <section name="secureAppSettings" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />   </configSections>   <secureAppSettings>     <add key="userName" value="username"/>     <add key="userPassword" value="password"/>   </secureAppSettings>   </configuration> 

secureAppSettings is decrypted and has two keys inside it.

Now in my code, I tried to access the keys like this:

string userName = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.secureAppSettings["userName"]; string userPassword = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.secureAppSettings["userPassword"]; 

But null is returning for these fields.

How can I get the field values?

Answer 1

You could access them as key/value pairs:

NameValueCollection section = (NameValueCollection)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("secureAppSettings"); string userName = section["userName"]; string userPassword = section["userPassword"];