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Here is the code I'm using: private void SaveConfiguration() { if (txtUsername.Text != "" && txtPassword.Text != "") { ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Username"] = txtUsername.Text; ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Password"] = txtPassword.Text; MessageBox.Show("Su configuracion guardo exitosamente.", "Exito!"); this.Close(); } else { MessageBox.Show("Por favor lleno los campos.", "Error."); } } Now, the settings are persisted but when I close the application and press F5 to run it again, the values are reverted to what is typed into the app.config file. Any suggestions? il_guru I think you

Is it is possible to do something like the following in the app.config or web.config files? <appSettings> <add key="MyBaseDir" value="C:\MyBase" /> <add key="Dir1" value="[MyBaseDir]\Dir1"/> <add key="Dir2" value="[MyBaseDir]\Dir2"/> </appSettings> I then want to access Dir2 in my code by simply saying: ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Dir2"] This will help me when I install my application in different servers and locations wherein I will only have to change ONE entry in my entire app.config . (I know I can manage all the concatenation in code, but I prefer it this way). Arjan Einbu Good

I have standard logging, NHibernate, etc. configuration blocks in my app.config and I'd like to extract them into a common XML file that can be included as a reference by all of my applications' app.config files. Is this possible? Yes, you can use the configSource attribute of the configuration block. All configuration blocks have this attribute - although it isn't documented. See this article , all the way at the bottom, appendix B. I've also pasted the relevant section below: Appendix B: including external configuration files Despite all the greatness to be found in .NET 2.0's configuration

Is it possible to relocate the whole App.Config file to a custom path? It seems a bit odd that the config file resides in the same folder as the exe, with Windows' new approcah of saving all program settings in c:\ProgramData and all. An additional requirement we have is to programatically specify where to find the app.config file. The reason for this being that we spawn different service instances from the same exes, and would like to store each service's app.config in that service's settings folder under c:\ProgramData\\. Each AppDomain has/can have its own configuration file. The default

This question already has an answer here: Custom app.config Config Section Handler 3 answers I want to add a custom configuration section in my app.config file. Is there a way to do it and how can I access these settings in my program. Following is the config section I want to add to my app.config : <RegisterCompanies> <Companies> <Company name="Tata Motors" code="Tata"/> <Company name="Honda Motors" code="Honda"/> </Companies> </RegisterCompanies> Jan Remunda Import namespace : using System.Configuration; Create ConfigurationElement Company : public class Company : ConfigurationElement {