Hi Kirk,

The name of your application config file should be app.config and located in your root directory of your application. VS.NET then takes the contents of the app.config and creates a config for your specific app and places it in the BIN directory. You don't do any of that. Just create app.config and place your information in there. Make sure the ConnectionString key below has an "=" sign after the "value".

>Cathi
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>Thanks for the reply, still no luck though, I tried adding another key, but get the same Nothing.
>
>vbReadConfig.config
>

><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
><configuration>
>	<appSettings>
>		<add key="ConnectionString" value "ConnectionStringText"/>
>		<add key="dsn" value="Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\Statistics.mdb"/>
>	</appSettings>
></configuration>
>