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I have written a program that stores its settings to a .user file using the standard ConfigurationManager mechanism. Now I would like to implement a method "save as" and "load" where the user can store his program settings to another location. Is there another possibility other than to copy the physical file?

bear7
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  • http://snipplr.com/view/24482/ "Persisting data using XML config files in WinForms (saving and restoring user and application data)" Also at SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1869628/how-to-use-net-configuration-files-app-config-settings-settings-to-save-and – Pedro77 Jan 20 '15 at 17:53

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Here is an article with methods you need. SaveAs is named Export and Load is Import in the article.

But I could say from my experience that if you want to use application settings in custom manner it is better to implement custom SettingsProvider. Here is a good example of implementing custom SettingsProvider and storing configs in separated xml files (which is, I believe, exactly what you need).

MajesticRa
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