CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting returning null

Question

Following instructions here I have:

var connectionString = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString");

But connectionString is null, here is my app.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.5" />
  </startup>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="StorageConnectionString"
         connectionString="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=storage;AccountKey=key" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
      <dependentAssembly>
        <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Data.OData" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-5.2.0.0" newVersion="5.2.0.0" />
      </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
  </runtime>
</configuration>

Answer 1

As per documentation in MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/microsoft.windowsazure.cloudconfigurationmanager.aspx

Only configuration settings within the appSettings tag can be read by CloudConfigurationManager. If your configuration settings are within a different tag, calling GetSetting will return Null.