Visual Studio Project Settings
When I first started using the settings feature that was built into Visual Studio, I thought that they were pretty straight forward. It turns out that I had virtually no idea what was really going on. This is probably has mostly to do with MSDN's lack of documentation, as usual. Now I will attempt to lay out how this monster really works. First goto the properties page of a project and goto the settings tab. From here you can set up either Application or User settings. It turns out that the differences are pretty self explanitory. A user setting will actually end up in a user.config file burried in the Documents And Settings folder for each user. This means that each user will be able to have a different set of settings for these. Application settings are actually read from the myapp.exe.config file in the application path (usually in Program Files). To access these settings from code, all you need to do is: string mySetting = Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting; If you are acces...