Questions tagged [settingsprovider]
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SettingsProviderAttribute replacement for application-level custom SettingsProvider
In a .NET application, if you have specific Settings need, such as storing them in DB, then you could replace LocalFileSettingsProvider with a custom settings provider of your, examples:
Create a Custom Settings Provider to Share Settings Between…
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How to make settings provider inside a dynamically loaded assembly available for reflection?
Following this question, I successfully created my custom settings provider in the legacy C# app we are developing. It is referenced via the SettingsProvider attribute:
public sealed class MySettings : SettingsProvider
{
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Why is reading a settings property value making a SettingsPropertyValue object dirty?
While implementing a custom settings provider I noticed that accessing a setting property's value changes its IsDirty flag to true.
// Arrange
var property = new SettingsProperty("property1")
{
PropertyType = typeof(Color),
DefaultValue =…
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How to change the predefined userconfig directory of my .NET application?
Currentlly the user-settings of my application are stored in this default directory:
C:\Users\{User Name}\AppData\Roaming\{Company Name}\{Assembly Name}.vshos_Url_{Hash}\{Assembly Version}
I'm aware of the meaning of the default Microsoft naming…
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How do I invoke my custom settings provider?
I need to specify a different location for my settings file. After many long hours of searching, I found out that I have to write my own SettingsProvider. I succeeded in creating one which allows me to specify a path for settings file via its…
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.NET SettingsProvider/ApplicationSettingsBase caching
I'm looking at some code that uses the .NET System.Configuration.SettingsProvider and ApplicationSettingsBase to handle configuration.
We have a class that derives from SettingsProvider that uses a database as the data store, and then we have other…
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How to use multiple SettingsProviders
Up until now I have always stored user settings in the registry but I'm attempting to start saving settings using the ApplicationSettings. On the surface things are pretty simple but I am having trouble creating nested groups.
I have several…
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