- 1 year ago
how to save Properties.Settings.Default settings in our own file path instead of default configuration path?
To save the Properties.Settings.Default
settings to a custom file path instead of the default configuration path, you can override the Save
method of the Properties.Settings
class. Here's an example of how you can do it:
csharpusing System;
using System.Configuration;
namespace YourNamespace
{
public static class CustomSettings
{
public static void Save(string filePath)
{
Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
ConfigurationSectionGroup settingsGroup = config.GetSectionGroup("applicationSettings");
ConfigurationSection settingsSection = settingsGroup.Sections["YourNamespace.Properties.Settings"];
if (settingsSection != null)
{
ClientSettingsSection clientSettingsSection = (ClientSettingsSection)settingsSection;
clientSettingsSection.Settings.Get("Setting1").Value = Properties.Settings.Default.Setting1;
clientSettingsSection.Settings.Get("Setting2").Value = Properties.Settings.Default.Setting2;
// Add more settings as needed
config.SaveAs(filePath);
}
}
}
}
In this example, we create a custom static class CustomSettings
that provides a Save
method. The Save
method takes a file path as a parameter and opens the application's configuration file (app.config
or YourAppName.exe.config
). It then retrieves the YourNamespace.Properties.Settings
section from the configuration file and updates the specific settings with the values from Properties.Settings.Default
. Finally, it saves the modified configuration to the specified file path using the SaveAs
method.
To use this custom saving logic, you can call the CustomSettings.Save
method wherever you want to save the settings to a specific file path:
csharpCustomSettings.Save("custom-config-file.config");
Please note that you need to replace "YourNamespace"
with the appropriate namespace for your application, and also adjust the setting names and values according to your specific settings.
Remember to update the custom configuration file when loading the settings as well, by using ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration
to load the configuration from the custom file path.