Do not overwrite settings.settings file with clickonce

Question

At first I had some userdefined settings stored in my app.config file, under appSettings. These are properties the user can change during runtime. The first problem I\'ve go

Answer 1

This method copies the settings from the previous installation when deploying a new version of the application with ClickOnce. So any user defined settings that the user made will be copied and thus available after the update. I tested this and it works for me.

public static void UpgradeUserSettings()
{
  if (Settings.Default.upgradeRequired)
  {
    Settings.Default.Upgrade();
    Settings.Default.upgradeRequired = false;
    Settings.Default.Save();
  }
} 

ApplicationSettingsBase.Upgrade Method MSDN

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