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How can I change (or override) a settings.settings variable by adding a variable to the app.config on production?
Is this possible anyway?
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New Project > Visual C# > Console ApplicationConfiguration assembly reference to access configuration settings, using ConfigurationManager. To add the reference, just right click References and click to add references. Now, we can see that System. Configuration reference has been added successfully to our project.
App. Config is an XML file that is used as a configuration file for your application. In other words, you store inside it any setting that you may want to change without having to change code (and recompiling). It is often used to store connection strings.
You have to directly reference the applicationSettings you're trying to override and explicitly specify the property that has a replaced value.
<configuration>
<!-- section definitions for all elements in <configuration> tag -->
<configSections>
<!-- section group, meaning: there will be a <applicationSettings> tag in you configuration-->
<sectionGroup name="applicationSettings" type="System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsGroup, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089">
<!-- defines that there will be a <appname.Properties.Settings> tag inside your <applicationSettings> tag -->
<section name="appname.Properties.Settings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<applicationSettings>
<appname.Properties.Settings>
<!-- name of the property you want to override -->
<setting name="setting1" serializeAs="String">
<!-- new value -->
<value>new string value</value>
</setting>
</appname.Properties.Settings>
</applicationSettings>
</configuration>
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