Create a custom tag for the endpoint and recover it by using configurationmanager

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I created a Rest web API and now I want to call the operations exposed by the API from a Proxy. My environment is Visual Studio, C#.

As the operations that I exposed in the API share a part of the URL/endpoint ("api/NameOfTheController"), I want to refer to this piece of URL by creating a custom tag in the app.config file of the Proxy project; I'm gonna call it by using ConfigurationManager to initialize a property of the Proxy.

How should I use the ConfigurationManager class to call the value of the custom tag?

What I have tried:

In the app.config of the proxy I wrote thee following tag, inside the <client> tag:

<customEndpointSegment name = "/api/NameOfTheController" />

Inside the same <client> tag there is a <endpoint> tag which points to another different service too.


In the Proxy.cs I have the following:

string webApiEndpoint;
HttpClient client;

public RestProxy()
{
   webApiEndpoint = ConfigurationManager. // I have to call the value of the tag here
   client = new HttpClient();
   client.BaseAddress = webApiEndpoint;
}