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Portable settings (AppName.exe.config) in C#

Posted By: Manabi | Dec 24th, 2008 @ 2:25 PM

Manabi
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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?

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The System.Configuration Namespace holds your answer.

Try this 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

Ion Todirel
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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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In reply to Ion Todirel

#Dec 26th, 2008 @ 10:42 AM

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

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