Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Thu Feb 28 11:28:37 CST 2008
OK, you've totally lost me. We don't reference either of those files, and why should we? All (or virtually all) of the contents are created as we build the application. The only time we modify our app.config is to handle a DataDynamics licensing issue on our onw workstations. Geeks notwithstanding, settings only apply at runtime, and we can control those nicely with xml files. We store our connection strings in an xml file, not in app.config, and read them when we need them. Obviously, userIDs and passwords are NOT stored in the xml file. I still have the feeling we're talking about two different things here. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:02 AM To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VS2005: Storing application settings Hi Charlotte It is the app.config xml file for application settings like Connection strings and so on: C:\...\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\<project>\<project>\app.config It holds the entries from the menu Project, <project> Properties pane, tab Settings. Nothing wrong with XML files. It's just that it seems that this file is for VS's use, so don't tamper with it. If you reference System.Configuration you can easily read from it via code, and methods exists for editing and saving values for _users_, however nothing can be saved for the _application_: http://geekswithblogs.net/akraus1/articles/64871.aspx /gustav >>> cfoust at infostatsystems.com 28-02-2008 17:01 >>> Are you talking about settings for Visual Studio or settings for an application? We use XML files for storing application settings (not VS settings), Gustav. I don't know why you characterize it as clumsy, and we don't "attack" any xml files. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:19 AM To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: [dba-VB] VS2005: Storing application settings Hi all How do you store application settings? I've noticed the nice pane with the tab "Settings" for manually doing this, but it is read-only from code. Of course you can step down and attack the xml file storing the data, but I find that a bit clumsy. /gustav _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com