Hi Jason,

This is a quick note to let you know that I am performing research on this
issue and will get back to you as soon as possible. I appreciate your
patience.

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi Jason,

The settings.settings xml file is associated with a custom tool that will
be used to generate the strong-typed My.Settings class.

Therefore your question is actually how to programmatically invoke this
custom tool if the settings xml file is changed by your code. Please feel
free to correct me if I've misunderstood anything.

To invoke the custom tool, you can use VSProjectItem.RunCustomTool
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vslangproj.vsprojectitem.runcustom
tool(VS.80).aspx). To obtain a reference of VSProjectItem of the settings
xml file, you can first get a ProjectItem
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/envdte.projectitem(VS.80).aspx)
reference and cast its Object property to a VSProjectItem type.

Here's some related threads for your reference:

#Re: Generating resources.cs file
http://www.codecomments.com/message379649.html

#vstudio extensibility custom editor generated code
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/forumarchives/vstudioextensibility/Jan2006/post25
308757.asp

#How Steve Got Burned Today: December 2006
http://sstjean.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

#MBR IT/.NET 247 : force custom tool run @build? on
microsoft.public.vsnet.ide
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/32/162362.aspx

Please let me know if there's anything unclear. Thanks.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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