The .NET 2.0 System.Configuration.dll provides a much more sophisticated (and complex) set of classes that access and modify application .config files, than compared to the functionality in .NET 1.x. However, most often, the requirement is still to provide simple access to and from the key-value pairs in the appSettings section as before. This post establishes a very simple abstract base-class that provides a simple binding to the appSettings section that requires no code to be written in the sub-class....