ConfigurationManager not available in .net 5 class library / console application

Question

Hello

My solution in Visual Studio 2022 comprises a class library and a console application. I would like to use
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings from the System.Configuration namespace, however it is not available.

This is targetting ,net 5 which if I uderstand correctly is not a .net core app.

Maybe I need to recreate as a core app?

Is targeting the app.config for settings and connection strings not the best way of developing in VS2022?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try installing a NuGet package: "System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager".

By the way, I think that .NET 5 is "Core" too, and you can re-create a more modern project using .NET 6.