Hi Peter,
Thanks for your post!
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings will only read current application's
config file, which is internally obtained by
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.Configura tionFile property. So you
should place the config file with name "appname.exe.config" in the same
directory with your service exe file.
Note: replace "appname" with your service exe name without the extension.
I have written a little sample Windows Service application for testing, it
works well with a local config file:
//MyNewService.exe.config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="abc" value="Hello World" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>
//In MyNewService.cs file
System.Diagnostics.EventLog eventLog1=null;
public MyNewService()
{
// This call is required by the Windows.Forms Component Designer.
InitializeComponent();
eventLog1=new EventLog();
if (!System.Diagnostics.EventLog.SourceExists("MySour ce"))
{
System.Diagnostics.EventLog.CreateEventSource(
"MySource","MyNewLog");
}
eventLog1.Source = "MySource";
eventLog1.Log = "MyNewLog";
// TODO: Add any initialization after the InitComponent call
}
static void Main()
{
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun;
// More than one user Service may run within the same process. To add
// another service to this process, change the following line to
// create a second service object. For example,
//
// ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] {new
Service1(), new MySecondUserService()};
//
ServicesToRun = new System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase[] { new
MyNewService() };
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRu n);
}
protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
{
string str;
if(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppS ettings["abc"]!=null)
{
str=System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.App Settings["abc"].ToString()
;
}
else
{
str="null config";
}
eventLog1.WriteEntry(str);
str=AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.Confi gurationFile;
eventLog1.WriteEntry(str);
// TODO: Add code here to start your service.
}
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Community Support
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