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How to make sure a project Application setting reads from the config file?

I inherited some code that uses the settings designer to manage some app
settings. One of the settings is a connection string that has a
DefaultSettingV alueAttribute with hard coded text for a connection string. I
would like it to read from the app.config file at runtime, but am not sure
how to get it to do that. I tried putting in code to read the config
section in the attribute instead of the text, but it didnt compile.

If I open the settings in the designer it says the app.config has changed
and do I want to update the default value, but that's not the same as
reading it at runtime. I dont want to have to open the project in the
designer and redeploy when I change the connection string in the app.config
file.

Is there a way to make it simply read the config file each time?

Thanks,
Eric
Mar 6 '07 #1
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