title: Reading a string from app.config file
body: <p>My question isn't related to the connection string which is the most popular. The other only help I could find with this is someone not using the reference. </p>
  
  <p>What I'm trying to do: I have a string stored in the app.config file, which looks like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;applicationSettings&gt;
    &lt;App_5.Properties.Settings&gt;
      &lt;setting name="Location_Name" serializeAs="String"&gt;
        &lt;value&gt;String I want&lt;/value&gt;
      &lt;/setting&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code to pull the string is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string Loc_Name = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Location_Name"];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have the reference added, and used. When I run the program my return is always <code>null</code>.</p>