Installer and app.config

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

2 Apr 2007 9:06 PM

William Stacey [C# MVP]

Have a need to load app.config inside the Installer for a service. This
took me a while to figure out and is now obvious, but SCM just uses the exe
as a "library" and calls the Installer class, so you don't get the
app.config loaded as if it was run as an exe - so you don't get the Settings
class populated. If Settings was loaded, it would be SCM's settings. Is
there a fast way to point to an app.config and get it loaded up into
Settings class instance so I get the strong typing without a lot of manual
parsing/serializing? I can currently get is loaded, but not into a Settings
object. tia

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William Stacey [C# MVP]