Why are my application settings not getting persisted?

Question

So I have some settings that are of the user scope, but for some reason, they are not being saved to the .exe.config file. I do the following:

Answer 1

All user scope settings saved under application data with within a folder which indicates the version of your application and the name.

You can see these folders by clicking "synchronize" in your "application settings" dialog.

In Vista generally:

• c:\users[currentuser]\AppData\Local[CompanyName][AppName]\version
• c:\users[currentuser]\AppData\Roaming[CompanyName][AppName]\version

Done this way due to settings are related with current user and UAC. In Vista also you can see even the application-wide settings are not stored in the config file.

[CompanyName] and [ProductName] comes from your Assembly Information settings.