Problem with application settings file

[Andy Weedman]

I have two projects in a solution.

Project 1 is a user control. In this user control I define an application
setting to store a url the user control needs to talk to.

Project 2 is our flagship product which has a reference to project 1 and
uses the user control defined in project 1 on a form in project 2.

When I compile project 1 and look at the bin I see the .dll/.exe and most
importantly the project1.exe.config file which contains my application
settings.

When I compile project 2 and look at the bin I see the .dll for project1 but
no project1.exe.config file. I do see a project2.exe.config file but when I
look in it, the application setting from project 1 is not there.

When I run project 2 the user control doesn't work because it can't find the
application setting for the user control. I tried putting
project1.exe.config file in the bin folder for project 2 but again it didn't
work.

I hope this made sense. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

 

[Gillard]

why not make a property for your user control for to store a url the user
control needs to talk to.??

 

[Andy Weedman]

I guess that is one solution...but I am implementing this control in several
applications and I didnt want to have to implement code to set the property
for the url in each application that implements the control.

 

[huntco]

If I'm reading correctly, you're asking where to put the configuration
file (dll.config) information for the .dll, right? I went through
this same issue a while ago - see http://tracyhunt.blogspot.com/2007/10/configuring-net-dll.html.

Nutshell: There is no config file for a .dll - you put all the .dll's
configuration information in the consuming application's config file.
There are some gotcha's, though, and the referenced post details how
to do it.

Regards,

Tracy