Windows Service Config File C#

Question

I located the error and it was related to file permissions. After installing the service, my local user account didn't have access to modify the app.exe.config file.

The tool I was using to edit was not informing me it was being denied access to save the file - that's notepad++ if anyone is interested - so I couldn't see that it wasn't saving over the old config file.

Solved now, thanks everyone.

Martin.

When you are in debug mode check and see what settings are in the my_exe_file_name.vshost.exe.config Also make sure you adjust this in the app.config file. Visual studio should update the final config file in your bin/debug folders.

Maybe you are updating the wrong config file. You should double check that using

System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(PATH_TO_CONFIG);

Generally for the Windows Services that I write, i drop the appName.exe.config file into C:\WINDOWS\system32\

Perhaps you have an older version in that directory, which is where your service is getting the value, even though you've updated the config file in your project.

App.config file should be renamed to your_exe_file_name.exe.config and placed near the exe file.