ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings obsolete

I am going through some E-Commerce exercises in .NET 1.1. I just wanted to know if this code I have below is equivalent to the code in 1.1, as I was getting error messages regarding code being obsolete

.NET 1.1

Public Class Catalog

Private Shared ReadOnly Property connectionstring() as String

Get

Return ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ConnectionString")

End Get

End Property

End Class

.NET 2.0

Imports System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager

Public Class Catalog

    Private Shared ReadOnly Property connectionString() As String

        Get

            Return ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ConnectionString

        End Get

    End Property
End Class

Regards

Rob

Re: ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings obsolete

your 2 code samples are not entirely equivalent.

in the 1.1 framework, the web.config file did not have a dedicated section for connection strings. so connectionstrings were often stored in the appSettings section.

with 2.0, a dedicated ConnectionStrings section was added. so the 2nd example will require that you move the connection string from appSettings section of the web.config file into the ConnectionStrings section.