My.Settings.Add

[Jason Kendall]

I've recently installed Beta 2 ov Visual Studio and an updating a few
small applications as a way to get my feet wet with some of the new
functionality. There are many new features which are really going to
make coding a lot simpler.

One area I'm investigating is the new "My.Setting s" object. Managing
these is so very easy now, except for one problem. In nearly all of
my applications, I use a class I wrote for reading/writing settings.
This class will build the MyApp.exe.confi g file if it's missing and
will add setting entries with default values if they're missing. The
'system' settings and the 'user' settings are in one file (or two, if
I choose). This way it's very easy for someone to copy the config
file(s) with the .exe and have the same user settings on multiple
machines.

Is there a way to specify where the user config settings are stored,
assuming you have the right permissions to read/write the file
location, of course?

Thanks!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com

[Stenis]

Short of writing your own settings provider, no, you can't specify the path
to the location of the user.config file.

Raghavendra explains why in his blog in his Client Settings FAQ

http://blogs.msdn.com/rprabhu/articles/433979.aspx

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to change the path?

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg (MSFT Visual Basic)

"Jason Kendall" wrote:

I've recently installed Beta 2 ov Visual Studio and an updating a few
small applications as a way to get my feet wet with some of the new
functionality. There are many new features which are really going to
make coding a lot simpler.

One area I'm investigating is the new "My.Setting s" object. Managing
these is so very easy now, except for one problem. In nearly all of
my applications, I use a class I wrote for reading/writing settings.
This class will build the MyApp.exe.confi g file if it's missing and
will add setting entries with default values if they're missing. The
'system' settings and the 'user' settings are in one file (or two, if
I choose). This way it's very easy for someone to copy the config
file(s) with the .exe and have the same user settings on multiple
machines.

Is there a way to specify where the user config settings are stored,
assuming you have the right permissions to read/write the file
location, of course?

Thanks!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com

[Jason Kendall]

Thanks for your reply!

"Just out of curiosity, why do you want to change the path?"
Really, the only reason is so that the user can copy all of their
settings, along with the executable, to a removable storage device and
put it on another machine. The default location for user
configuration settings is cryptic enough for some users that they'd
never find it. :-)

I'll probably write my own settings provider and use it in these rare
instances.

Thanks so much!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com


On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 10:08:01 -0700, Stenis
<St****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote:

Short of writing your own settings provider, no, you can't specify the path
to the location of the user.config file.

Raghavendra explains why in his blog in his Client Settings FAQ

http://blogs.msdn.com/rprabhu/articles/433979.aspx

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to change the path?

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg (MSFT Visual Basic)

"Jason Kendall" wrote:

I've recently installed Beta 2 ov Visual Studio and an updating a few
small applications as a way to get my feet wet with some of the new
functionality. There are many new features which are really going to
make coding a lot simpler.

One area I'm investigating is the new "My.Setting s" object. Managing
these is so very easy now, except for one problem. In nearly all of
my applications, I use a class I wrote for reading/writing settings.
This class will build the MyApp.exe.confi g file if it's missing and
will add setting entries with default values if they're missing. The
'system' settings and the 'user' settings are in one file (or two, if
I choose). This way it's very easy for someone to copy the config
file(s) with the .exe and have the same user settings on multiple
machines.

Is there a way to specify where the user config settings are stored,
assuming you have the right permissions to read/write the file
location, of course?

Thanks!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com

[Stenis]

Have you considered adding an import/export settings function in your program
instead? I would *not* recommend having your application write in the program
files folder - if you are running under a "normal" non admin account, this
will most likely fail, since you don't have write access there.

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg

"Jason Kendall" wrote:

Thanks for your reply!

"Just out of curiosity, why do you want to change the path?"
Really, the only reason is so that the user can copy all of their
settings, along with the executable, to a removable storage device and
put it on another machine. The default location for user
configuration settings is cryptic enough for some users that they'd
never find it. :-)

I'll probably write my own settings provider and use it in these rare
instances.

Thanks so much!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com


On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 10:08:01 -0700, Stenis
<St****@discuss ions.microsoft. com> wrote:

Short of writing your own settings provider, no, you can't specify the path
to the location of the user.config file.

Raghavendra explains why in his blog in his Client Settings FAQ

http://blogs.msdn.com/rprabhu/articles/433979.aspx

Just out of curiosity, why do you want to change the path?

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg (MSFT Visual Basic)

"Jason Kendall" wrote:

I've recently installed Beta 2 ov Visual Studio and an updating a few
small applications as a way to get my feet wet with some of the new
functionality. There are many new features which are really going to
make coding a lot simpler.

One area I'm investigating is the new "My.Setting s" object. Managing
these is so very easy now, except for one problem. In nearly all of
my applications, I use a class I wrote for reading/writing settings.
This class will build the MyApp.exe.confi g file if it's missing and
will add setting entries with default values if they're missing. The
'system' settings and the 'user' settings are in one file (or two, if
I choose). This way it's very easy for someone to copy the config
file(s) with the .exe and have the same user settings on multiple
machines.

Is there a way to specify where the user config settings are stored,
assuming you have the right permissions to read/write the file
location, of course?

Thanks!
-Jason Kendall
Ja**********@ho tmail.com