Using Application Settings and reading defaults from app.config
- by Peter Goras
Hi,
I need to deploy a Windows Forms application using ClickOnce deployment. (VS2008, .NET 3.5)
And I need to provide a configuration file for this app that any user can modify.
For this reason, I am using Application Settings instead of standard appSetttings in app.config so I can separate the the user config from app config.
see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228995(VS.80).aspx
Creating a Settings.settings file using VS generated a class with hard-coded default values like this:
[global::System.Configuration.DefaultSettingValueAttribute("blahblah")]
public string MyProperty
...
WTF? I want to read the default values from the app.config!
So I created my own class deriving from ApplicationSettingsBase but I cannot get this to read values from the app.config.
Any ideas?
