Static or not and when?

[bigfoot]

Hi All
I'm a long time VB developer learning C#. I'm loving it, but I have a question.

I have a class that reads my config settings out of my web.config file and passes them to several parts of my program.
In the VB world this class was static so I didn't not have ti instantiate it. Can I continue this into the C# world or is there a better way?

Code below.

  public static class AppConfiguration
  {

    private readonly string m_dbConnectionString;

    public static string DbConnectionString
    {
      get { return m_dbConnectionString; }
    }
  }

 

[NESWalt]

Well, we just usually use the standard Properties function to read out of the web.config...

String x = <namespace>.Properties.Settings.Default.<settingname>

similar to using my in VB.Net

 

[bigfoot]

That's what I'm doing in the class. This way if we change any of the property names, they only get changed in one place.

It's why I kept them in a class. There's about 10 or so.