So I have some settings that are of the user scope, but for some reason, they are not being saved to the .exe.config file. I do the following:
Properties.Settings.Default.Email = "new@value.com";
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
Yet I look at the settings file in the debug folder and it is still the default that I set in visual studio. Am I doing this wrong?
User settings are specific to the user, so they wouldn't get saved back to the .exe.config file, which is system wide.
From the docs of LocalSettingsProvider
:
Application-scoped settings and the default user-scoped settings are stored in a file named application.exe.config, which is created in the same directory as the executable file. Application configuration settings are read-only. Specific user data is stored in a file named
username.config
, stored under the user's home directory.
So for a UserSettingsTest application just run from VS under the debugger (hence the vshost bit) I ended up with a path of:
C:\Users\Jon\AppData\Local\UserSettingsTest
\UserSettingsTest.vshost.e_Url_pdqoppugkz1vaawbhwkkcu5ibxpi2fgu
\1.0.0.0\user.config
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