title: How to read Azure web site app settings values
body: <p>I am trying to configure some key/value pairs for my Azure web application using app settings section on Windows Azure preview portal. </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nyABu.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nyABu.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>Now I am trying to read values like below</p>
  
  <p>ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MyWebApp.DbConnectionString"];</p>
  
  <p>but it returns null values. </p>
  
  <p>Reading app settings from Web.config in my web application works fine.</p>