How to get a List collection of values from app.config in WPF?

May 9, 2023 by Tarik

You could have them semi-colon delimited in a single value, e.g.

App.config

<add key="paths" value="C:\test1;C:\test2;C:\test3" />

var paths = new List<string>(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["paths"].Split(new char[] { ';' }));