When using a Settings settings file in NET where is the config actually stored

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When using a Settings settings file in  NET  where is the config actually stored  I want to delete the saved settings to go back to the default state  but can t find where it s stored    any ideas

User · Answer

Here is the snippet you can use to programmatically get user.config file location:

public static string GetDefaultExeConfigPath(ConfigurationUserLevel userLevel)
{
  try
  {
    var UserConfig = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(userLevel);
    return UserConfig.FilePath;
  }
  catch (ConfigurationException e)
  {
    return e.Filename;
  }
}

ApplicationSettings (i.e. settings.settings) use PerUserRoamingAndLocal for user settings by default (as I remembered).

Update: Strange but there are too many incorrect answers here. If you are looking for you user scoped settings file (user.config) it will be located in the following folder (for Windows XP):

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Application Data\(company-name-if-exists)\(app-name).exe_(Url|StrongName)_(hash)\(app-version)\

Url or StrongName depends on have you application assembly strong name or not.

User · Answer

All your settings are stored in the respective  config file   The  settings file simply provides a strongly typed class for a set of settings that belong together  but the actual settings are stored in app config or a  config file in your application   If you add a  settings file  an app config will be automatically added to house the settings if you don t already have one

User · Answer

It depends on whether the setting you have chosen is at  User  scope or  Application  scope    User scope  User scope settings are stored in   C  Documents and Settings  username  Local Settings Application Data  ApplicationName  You can read write them at runtime    For Vista and Windows 7  folder is   C  Users  username  AppData Local  ApplicationName  or  C  Users  username  AppData Roaming  ApplicationName  Application scope  Application scope settings are saved in AppName exe config and they are readonly at runtime

User · Answer

Erm  can you not just use Settings Default Reset   to restore your default settings

User · Answer

If your settings file is in a web app  they will be in teh web config file  right below your project   If they are in any other type of project  they will be in the app config file  also below your project    Edit  As is pointed out in the comments   your design time application settings are in an app config file for applications other than web applications   When you build  the app config file is copied to the output directory  and will be named yourexename exe config   At runtime  only the file named yourexename exe config will be read

User · Answer

I know it s already answered but couldn t you just synchronize the settings in the settings designer to move back to your default settings

User · Answer

While browsing around to figure out about the hash in the folder name  I came across  via this answer    http   blogs msdn com b rprabhu archive 2005 06 29 433979 aspx   edit  Wayback Machine link  https   web archive org web 20160307233557 http   blogs msdn com 80 b rprabhu archive 2005 06 29 433979 aspx      The exact path of the user config files looks something like this        lt Profile Directory gt   lt Company Name gt   lt App Name gt   lt Evidence Type gt   lt Evidence Hash gt   lt Version gt  user config      where       lt Profile Directory gt  - is either the roaming profile directory or the local one  Settings are stored by default in the local user config file  To store a setting in the roaming user config file  you need to mark the setting with the SettingsManageabilityAttribute with SettingsManageability set to Roaming        lt Company Name gt  - is typically the string specified by the AssemblyCompanyAttribute  with the caveat that the string is escaped and truncated as necessary  and if not specified on the assembly  we have a fallback procedure         lt App Name gt  - is typically the string specified by the AssemblyProductAttribute  same caveats as for company name         lt Evidence Type gt  and  lt Evidence Hash gt  - information derived from the app domain evidence to provide proper app domain and assembly isolation        lt Version gt  - typically the version specified in the AssemblyVersionAttribute  This is required to isolate different versions of the app deployed side by side       The file name is always simply  user config

User · Answer

It is in a folder with your application s name in Application Data folder in User s home folder  C  documents and settings user on xp and c  users user on Windows Vista     There is some information here also   PS - try accessing it by  appdata  in run box

User · Answer

Two files  1  An app config or web config file   The settings her can be customized after build with a text editer  2  The settings designer cs file   This file has autogenerated code to load the setting from the config file  but a default value is also present in case the config file does not have the particular setting

User · Answer

Assuming that you re talking about desktop and not web applications   When you add settings to a project  VS creates a file named app config in your project directory and stores the settings in that file   It also builds the Settings cs file that provides the static accessors to the individual settings   At compile time  VS will  by default  you can change this  copy the app config to the build directory  changing its name to match the executable  e g  if your executable is named foo exe  the file will be named foo exe config   which is the name the  NET configuration manager looks for when it retrieves settings at runtime   If you change a setting through the VS settings editor  it will update both app config and Settings cs    If you look at the property accessors in the generated code in Settings cs  you ll see that they re marked with an attribute containing the default value of the setting that s in your app config file    If you change a setting by editing the app config file directly  Settings cs won t be updated  but the new value will still be used by your program when you run it  because app config gets copied to foo exe config at compile time   If you turn this off  by setting the file s properties   you can change a setting by directly editing the foo exe config file in the build directory   Then there are user-scoped settings   Application-scope settings are read-only   Your program can modify and save user-scope settings  thus allowing each user to have his her own settings   These settings aren t stored in the foo exe config file  since under Vista  at least  programs can t write to any subdirectory of Program Files without elevation   they re stored in a configuration file in the user s application data directory   The path to that file is  appdata   publisher name   program name   version  user config  e g  C  Users My Name AppData Local My Company My Program exe 1 0 0 user config   Note that if you ve given your program a strong name  the strong name will be appended to the program name in this path

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