Difference between appSettings and connectionStrings in Web.config file?

Question

Why is there another section called connectionStrings? I always used appSettings until I noticed this in a new project:

<appSettings>
 <add key="SqlConnString" value="server=ABC;database=ABC;uid=A;pwd=B;"/>
</appSettings>

<connectionStrings>    
</connectionStrings>

Is there any difference? Any reason why I should use one over the other?

Answer 1

In the documentation:

The connectionStrings element specifies the connection string database collection because the name / value of the pair for ASP.NET applications and features.

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Answer 2

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