Why are my application settings not getting persisted?
So I have some settings that are of the user scope, but for some reason, they are not being saved to the .exe.config file. I do the following: Properties.Settings.Default.Email = "new@value.com"; Properties.Settings.Default.Save(); Yet I look at the settings file in the debug folder and it is still the default that I set in visual studio. Am I doing this wrong? User settings are specific to the user, so they wouldn't get saved back to the .exe.config file, which is system wide. From the docs of LocalSettingsProvider : Application-scoped settings and the default user-scoped settings are stored