Is there a way to tell .NET where to look for the user settings file?

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Published on 2010-03-16T23:48:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 23:51 UTC
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Basically multiple instances of our application will be launched but they need to have separate user settings. We currently have use "user settings" for that, and it works fine for a single instance (per windows user) but we would like to be able to launch multiple instances with say a settings path passed in via command line. Is there a way to do this with the built-in .NET settings or will we have to roll our own?

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