Automatically “upgrade” user settings from previous version of app.config file?

Question

Every time I compile my app and the version number changes (I have an auto-incrementing build number), I lose the user-configured app.config settings, since they\'re stored

Answer 1

Have you looked at ApplicationSettingsBase.Upgrade()? It allows the settings to be upgraded from a previous version using the following call:

My.Settings.Upgrade()