AppSettings giving warning in VS 2008

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The warning is; 'Public Shared ReadOnly Property AppSettings() As System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection' is obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings'.

Below is my connection

VB

Imports System.Data.OracleClient 
Imports System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings 

Public Class DBConnection Dim _Conn As System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection  Public Function OracleConString() As String 
   Return "Data Source=" & AppSettings("DataSource") & _ "; 
              "User ID=" & AppSettings("DBUserID") & _ "; 
              Password=" & AppSettings("DBPassword") & ";" 
End Function 
End Class

I copied this from a VB program created in VS 2003.

What is the equivalent of AppSettings in VS 2008 and ts namespace used?

Posted 6-Mar-12 4:03am

Alan Tuscano

Updated 6-Mar-12 16:00pm

RaisKazi

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Solution 2

Alan,

1. Add reference to System.Configuration

2. Replace AppSettings("key") with ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Key")

*Mark as answer if this solves your query.

Posted 6-Mar-12 4:26am

Jyothikarthik_N

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Alan Tuscano 6-Mar-12 19:21pm

Hi Jyothikarthik_N,

As what you said sir,

<pre lang="vb">
Imports System.Data.OracleClient
Imports System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings

Public Class DBConnection Dim _Conn As System.Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection

Public Function OracleConString() As String
Return "Data Source=" & ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("DataSource") & _ ";
"User ID=" & ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("DBUserID") & _ ";
Password=" & ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("DBPassword") & ";"
End Function
End Class</pre>

As what i noticed sir, there is no "ConfigurationManager" in the reference.

Imports System.ConfigurationManager ?

I'm using VS 2008, from my understanding, ConfigurationSettings is used in VS 2003, I just couldn't make way in doing it in VS 2008.
That is probably the reason why VS 2008 is sending me the warnings?

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Jyothikarthik_N · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-06T04:26:00

Solution 1

Alan,

1. Add reference to System.Configuration

2. Replace AppSettings("key") with ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("Key")

*Mark as answer if this solves your query.

Posted 6-Mar-12 4:26am

Jyothikarthik_N

Alan Tuscano · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-06T15:50:00

Solution 3

Got this one solved!

got the answer from

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/d61a57ef-552d-45cc-8326-3ca3bc113699

Comments by KrishGuru.

At Solutions Explorer, Right Click on the Project, select Add Reference and
select System.Configuration and click okay.

Posted 6-Mar-12 15:50pm

Alan Tuscano

Updated 6-Mar-12 16:02pm

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RaisKazi 6-Mar-12 22:03pm

Edit - Fixed link.