settings.settings – Tarik Billa

How to persist changes in a .settings/.config file across a file version change?

April 23, 2023 by Tarik

A few clarifications: You have to call the Upgrade method of ApplicationSettingsBase derived class (that is normally called Settings and is created for you by Visual Studio): Properties.Settings.Default.Upgrade(); When/where to call the Upgrade method? There is a simple trick you can apply: define a user setting called UpgradeRequired (example) as bool (the easiest way is … Read more

Settings.settings vs. app.config in .NET desktop app [duplicate]

January 10, 2023 by Tarik

Why two mechanisms and not just one? They serve different purposes. The settings API offers read/write access from the application, whereas config is read only (unless you write the file in code). Settings can be defined per user or per application, and are designed to be volatile. User settings are written to hidden folder within … Read more