Reading Configuration Sections from the Current Application
When an ASP.NET application starts, the application merges all the configuration settings in the configuration hierarchy to create one representation of the configuration settings. A particular configuration setting might have different values at different levels in the hierarchy. You can use the methods of the WebConfigurationManager class to get the value of a configuration setting at any level in the hierarchy.
The WebConfigurationManager.GetWebApplicationSection() method always retrieves a configuration setting from the application root Web.config file. For example, the page in Listing 34.8 displays whether debugging is enabled.
Listing 34.8. ShowConfigApp.aspx
The GetWebApplication() ...
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