Answer by Chris Catignani for Reading settings from app.config or web.config in .NET

If your needing/wanting to use the ConfigurationManager class...

You may need to load System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager by Microsoft via NuGet Package Manager

Tools->NuGet Package Manager->Manage NuGet Packages for Solution...

Microsoft Docs

One thing worth noting from the docs...

If your application needs read-only access to its own configuration, we recommend that you use the GetSection(String) method. This method provides access to the cached configuration values for the current application, which has better performance than the Configuration class.