My application is a Class Library. In my test scenario, I have created an ASP.NET application that calls my application's lone method.

The contents of my application's App.config appear below:

<xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="Rulebase" value="msq:IDS" />
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

In my code, I request my application setting's value thusly:

colAppSettings = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings
sName = colAppSettings("Rulebase")

However, it reads the Web.config of the ASP.NET application (so sName, of course, remains Nothing).

How can I ensure that my application examines its own App.config file rather than the Web.config (or the App.config) of the applications calling it?