How to return a verbatim string from ConfigurationManager.AppSetting["settingname"].ToString() <p>I am using the <code>ConfigurationManager.AppSetting["blah"].ToString()</code> method to get the path to the folder that contains the files I'm needing. But I'm throwing an <code>UnsupportedFormatException</code> on the path when it tries to use <code>Directory.GetFiles(path)</code>.</p> <p>The returning value has the escape characters included and I'm not sure how to keep it from returning the extra characters. This is what the path looks like after it is returned:</p> <p><code>\\\\\\\\C:\\\\folder1\\\\folder2</code></p>