Why aren't .NET “application settings” stored in the registry?

Question

Some time back in the nineties, Microsoft introduced the Windows Registry. Applications could store settings in different hives. There were hives for application-wide and us

Answer 1

I think there is a huge security issue about Application Setting (.config files) is that can be edited in any text editor and change every thing.

Let's say that a connectionString is stored and some one deleted or changed all values in the config file then the application will have a lot of proplem so the config file should be protected.

or store Setting in DLL file for example.