How can I store application specific info in web.config such as number of threads to be run?

Question

I have a module that uses multithreading. I want to store the number of threads to be created by the module in the web.config file.

What tag should I use?

Answer 1

Put it in the appSettings section.

  <appSettings>
      <add key="myModuleThreadCount" value="4" />
  </appSettings>

Then in your code, reference it as so:

  var threads = int.Parse( WebConfigurationManager.AppSettings["myModuleThreadCount"] );