Relocating app.config file to a custom path

c# .net path app-config
Ries picture Ries · Dec 3, 2009 · Viewed 56k times · Source

Is it possible to relocate the whole App.Config file to a custom path?

It seems a bit odd that the config file resides in the same folder as the exe, with Windows' new approcah of saving all program settings in c:\ProgramData and all.

An additional requirement we have is to programatically specify where to find the app.config file. The reason for this being that we spawn different service instances from the same exes, and would like to store each service's app.config in that service's settings folder under c:\ProgramData\\.

Answer

newby picture newby · Oct 3, 2012

If still relevant, we have used the following I found on another suggested answer to another question here on Stack Overflow...

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData ("APP_CONFIG_FILE", "path to config file")

Worked great for us when we had issues loading app.config from DLL only...

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