title: app.config appSettings File Attribute absolute path
body: <p>In my App.config file I'm trying to reference a file not located in the project, I've read that an absolute path should work.  However, I can't get it to work.</p>
  
  <p>my App.config:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;    
  &lt;configuration&gt;
      ...
      &lt;appSettings file="C:/configs/Secrets.config" /&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then in the referenced file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?&gt;
  &lt;appSettings&gt;
     &lt;add key="Username" value="user" /&gt;
     &lt;add key="Password" value="password" /&gt;
  &lt;/appSettings&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I run my project the appSettings has no values attached to it.
  What am I doing wrong?</p>