vb.net reading configuration file - vb.net

I have a vb.net application and in the startup folder I have an XML config file. I want to read the settings from this file, not from the user/app/ folder. Is there any way that i will define the application to read configuration from this file?

You really made a poor description of your problem;
You don't want to read a configuration file, you want to read an XML file. There are literally thousands of examples for that.
How to read an XML File

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