Purpose of ClientSettingsProvider.ServiceUri in app.config

Question

What does

do?

Since the

Answer 1

Is the setting referenced anywhere in your code?

If not, you can probably remove it. If it is, only you can determine what the impact of removing it may be.

Please note that this could be used be a third party assembly and it may still look for it and throw an exception if it does not exist. This would be simple to spot (your application will fall over)