"Keith" <ke***@alh.com> wrote in message
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> OK,
>
> Since I can't seem to get app.config's to work for me, and there seems to
> be a fair amount of confusion about what I'm actually asking, I've decided
> to attach a simple project that should clear things up.  The project is a
> basic Windows Forms app that has one label that is bound to a setting in
> app.config, and a series of MessageBoxes that display the same setting as
> the label, but each time retrieved using a different method.
>
> Most methods fail, and I'm trying to find out why.
>
> I'm using the designer to add settings to the Settings.settings file, the
> (properly named) app.config file gets placed in the output directory when
> the project is built.  The bound label properly shows the correct value
> and the correct value is also retrieved if the
> Properties.Settings.<settingname> syntax is used, even if the app.config
> is hand-edited to change the setting's value.
>
> All other methods fail.
>
> I'd really appreciate it if someone could take a look at the project and
> tell me what I'm doing wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Keith
>
> P.S. I'm using VS2005 and C# on WinXP SP2, totally current.
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