user.config issues

Question

I'm using C# Express. I am not using Click-Once to install and distribute. I am manually copying right now for testing until I can build a WIX based msi file.
(When I tried Click-Once to deploy, a user.config was stored in AppData\Local\Username\appname\...., but Click-Once is unusable, since I use an URL handler to relaunch the app, which needs an exe in a reliable path) 

Scope is User.
My app Properties Resources management is set to Icon and manifest.

When it runs in the debugger, it saves the settings to:
C:\Users\rickhan.TIRNANOGLOC\AppData\Local\XXXXXXXX\XXXXXXXX.exe_Url_tkliqijmduf200v0qh5puafyy4dsysaa\1.0.0.0\user.config
 
I copy all my code to my test box to a single folder. Run it. It fails, since no values are being saved.
So do I need to put a copy of user.config in AppData\Local\... or will it create one if I  set something to point my app to a specific user\AppData folder?
 
 Any idea on how to do that?
 

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Rick Hantz

Answer 1

Hi Rick Hantz,

How did it fail? Could you please share more details on that part?

Best regards,

Answer 2

It wasn't writing to the user.config.

I recomplied several times, and it finally started writing to it.

How would I change the name of the path, at least the parts that are like Url_tkliqijmduf200v0qh5puafyy4dsysaa??

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Rick Hantz

Answer 3

Hi RickHan,

I don't think you need to deal that path by yourself.

Could you please show us your code of saving the config?

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Min Zhu [MSFT]
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