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Tech Off - Portable settings (AppName.exe.config) in C#

Mark Seymour — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:25:02 GMT

I've been looking through Google for a good while trying to find an answer to my question... How do I make my application save and load it's settings from a single file (AppName.exe.config, ex. "Vanilla.exe.config") that is located in the same folder as the executable?

Tech Off - Portable settings (AppName.exe.config) in C#

PerfectPhase — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:33:27 GMT

The System.Configuration Namespace holds your answer.

Try this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(VS.80).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(VS.80).aspx

or this http://www.codeplex.com/csd or this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.configuration.configurationmanager.aspx

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Ion Todirel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:42:24 GMT

also if you have exotic settings, you may want to manually serialize your config (somewhere in AppData directory), instead of messing with custom sections....

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PerfectPhase — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:01:30 GMT

Ion Todirel said:
also if you have exotic settings, you may want to manually serialize your config (somewhere in AppData directory), instead of messing with custom sections....

If your going to do that, this is a good guide as to where to put it http://blogs.msdn.com/cjacks/archive/2008/02/05/where-should-i-write-program-data-instead-of-program-files.aspx