disappearing .exe.config file

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Corey Wirun - 18 May 2004 17:30 GMT

Hi All,

I've got a Winforms app 'test1.exe' (in C#), where the simple act of
compiling always deletes the test1.exe.config file in the output debug
directory.

Is there a reason why this happens?

Thanks!
Corey.

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Amit - 18 May 2004 19:45 GMT

Instead of putting your settings in test1.exe.config, put them in a file
called App.Config in the root project folder and include it in the project.
When you compile, Visual Studio will automatically create the
test1.exe.config file for you
~amit

> Hi All,
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Dan - 30 May 2004 08:59 GMT

A lot of customers have told us about this problem in VS 2003. If you get
hold of a copy of VS 2005 (beta when it comes out) please consider playing
with this scenario in that. We have tried to only delete the
assemblyname.exe.config in the output folder if the project system itself
created it by copying an app.config from the project root folder (so
presumably it wasn't put there by yourself).

If that isn't what happens in your case -- let us know so we can fix it.

Thanks in advance
Dan [MS]

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> Instead of putting your settings in test1.exe.config, put them in a file
> called App.Config in the root project folder and include it in the project.
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> > Thanks!
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