Reading Application Settings using C# VS 2005

11 Jul 2006 10:41 PM

Jim Rand

In Properties / Settings, I've got a setting (say "ExportPath") with a value
(say "C:\\Tmp").

Using C#, how do you get the setting value?

string settingValue = SomeNETWhatever["ExportPath"];

12 Jul 2006 6:30 AM

kishor

If you are using visual studio.
add a config file to your solution.
in that file put your entries like this

<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="ExportPath" value="C:\\Tmp" />
    </appSettings>
</configuration>

and use this

string Exportpath=
CStr(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ExportPath"))

Bye
Kishor Pise

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"Jim Rand" wrote:

> In Properties / Settings, I've got a setting (say "ExportPath") with a value
> (say "C:\\Tmp").
>
> Using C#, how do you get the setting value?
>
> string settingValue = SomeNETWhatever["ExportPath"];
>
>
>

12 Jul 2006 4:57 PM

Jim Rand

After much time, I've figured it out how to read the application settings
created in the designer:

Configuration config =
ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
ConfigurationSectionGroup configGroup =
config.SectionGroups["applicationSettings"];
ClientSettingsSection settingsSection = (ClientSettingsSection)
configGroup.Sections["AppSettings.Properties.Settings"];
SettingElementCollection elements = settingsSection.Settings;
foreach (SettingElement element in elements)
{
txtOutput.Text += element.Name + ":" + element.Value.ValueXml.InnerText
+ Environment.NewLine;
}

A simpler approach is just to use the AppSettings that you suggested.

Jim

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"kishor" <kis***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E5B65E8F-3112-42F2-B1AE-EBC782524C51@microsoft.com...
> If you are using visual studio.
> add a config file to your solution.
> in that file put your entries like this
>
> <configuration>
> <appSettings>
> <add key="ExportPath" value="C:\\Tmp" />
> </appSettings>
> </configuration>
>
>
> and use this
>
>
> string Exportpath=
> CStr(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("ExportPath"))
>
> Bye
> Kishor Pise
>
> "Jim Rand" wrote:
>
>> In Properties / Settings, I've got a setting (say "ExportPath") with a
>> value
>> (say "C:\\Tmp").
>>
>> Using C#, how do you get the setting value?
>>
>> string settingValue = SomeNETWhatever["ExportPath"];
>>
>>
>>