title: C#'s application configuration "app.config" file... how to store collections?
body: <p>I am in the process of writing a service using C# and I need to store a list of strings within the <em>app.config</em> file. I have 161 of these.</p>
  
  <p>How can I store this information in the <em>app.config</em> file? There must be a way, because these are strongly typed values and thus I'm supposed to easily use any valid .NET type in the code to access them!</p>
  
  <p>I want to avoid having one value that uses a comma-separated list for obvious performance issues.</p>