I'm looking for a way to store application or machine level settings that can be written to at runtime using Application Settings. User settings allow read/write but application settings do not. I have been using user settings for saving settings like this at runtime but this has really proven to be impractical for the following reasons:
Our company machines are only used by one user anyway so user specific settings are not generally needed.
Otherwise I really like using application settings and would like to continue to use them if possible. It would be ideal if the settings could reside in the same folder as the EXE (like good ol' ini files once did).
NOTE: This is a WPF application and not an ASP.net web app so no web.config.
Well, I haven't yet wanted to change application settings at runtime (that's what I use user settings for), but what I have been able to do is write application settings at install time. I imagine that a similar approach might work at runtime. You could try it out since there don't seem to be any other propsed solutions ATM.
exePath = Path.Combine( exePath, "MyApp.exe" );
Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration( exePath );
var setting = config.AppSettings.Settings[SettingKey];
if (setting != null)
{
setting.Value = newValue;
}
else
{
config.AppSettings.Settings.Add( SettingKey, newValue);
}
config.Save();
Hope that helps!