ASP.NET Syntax   ASP.NET Configuration Sections

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Adds a custom application setting as a name/value pair to the collection of application settings.

<add
   key = "String name"
   value="String value"
/>

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attribute	Description
key	Required String attribute. Specifies the name of the application setting. This attribute is the collection key.
value	Required String attribute. Specifies the value of the application setting.
Inherited attributes	Optional attributes. Attributes that are inherited by all section elements. For more information, see Shared Configuration Attributes.

None.

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the required root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration settings in a configuration file and contains configuration elements that configure ASP.NET Web applications and control how the applications behave.
appSettings	Contains custom application settings, such as file paths, XML Web service URLs, or any information that is stored in the .ini file for an application.

The add element adds a custom application setting as a name/value pair to the collection of inherited application settings in the appSettings element.

The appSettings element stores custom application configuration information such as file paths, XML Web service URLs, or any information that is stored in the .ini file for an application. The key/value pairs that are specified in the appSettings element can be accessed in code using the ConfigurationSettings class.

The following default appSettings element is configured in the Machine.config file in the .NET Framework versions 1.0 and 1.1.

<appSettings>
   <add key = "XML File Name" 
      value="myXmlFileName.xml" />
</appSettings>

Configuration files that are specified in a file attribute must have appSettings rather than configuration as the root node. The following code is correct for a configuration file that is specified in the file attribute.

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ?>
<appSettings>
   <add key = "Application1" value="MyApplication1" />
   <add key = "Setting1" value="MySetting" />
</appSettings>

The following code example shows how to define a custom application setting in a configuration file.

<configuration>
   <appSettings>
      <add key = "Application Name" value="MyApplication" />
   </appSettings>
</configuration>

<appSettings> Section   <appSettings> clear Element   <appSettings> remove Element