Web.Config Use "pointy brackets Vs square "[" & "]" [?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?] [configuration] [appSettings] [add key="Test" value="Hello World"/] ... [/appSettings] ... [/configuration] Imports config = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings ... Private Sub btnLoad_Click(...) Handles btnLoad.Click Label1.Text = config.AppSettings("Test") End Sub