The user settings default values established in the Settings properties for the user are also saved as application settings, and become the default user settings for a new installation.

Or, are yourwantingthe user to beable to transfertheir own specific settings from one installation of your application to the next? If so, you need to decide how those settings are going to be physically transferred from the location of the existing installation to the location of the new installation. I imagine that you don't want the user bothering with finding and copying the user.config file. My preference would be to provide an option in the application to "Save current settings to transfer file" and "Load settings from transfer file".The user would still be responsible for finding the transfer file and physically relocating it (if required). You could build in a prompt to (optionally) loadsettings from a transferfile on first run after installation (based on an item in user settings)but the user would still need to specify the name and location of that file.If settings are bound to control properties then simply setting control properties from the data in the ransfer file would ensure they are persisted as user settings. Otherwise, you need to manually update the settings and save them.

The user settings default values established in the Settings properties for the user are also saved as application settings, and become the default user settings for a new installation.

Or, are yourwantingthe user to beable to transfertheir own specific settings from one installation of your application to the next? If so, you need to decide how those settings are going to be physically transferred from the location of the existing installation to the location of the new installation. I imagine that you don't want the user bothering with finding and copying the user.config file. My preference would be to provide an option in the application to "Save current settings to transfer file" and "Load settings from transfer file".The user would still be responsible for finding the transfer file and physically relocating it (if required). You could build in a prompt to (optionally) loadsettings from a transferfile on first run after installation (based on an item in user settings)but the user would still need to specify the name and location of that file.If settings are bound to control properties then simply setting control properties from the data in the ransfer file would ensure they are persisted as user settings. Otherwise, you need to manually update the settings and save them.

Hi Progress2007 ,

Based on my understanding, you want to fetch some setting of user scope and persist them to the User.config file, so that this configuration can be reused by others. Please feel free to tell me if I misunderstand you.

If so, we need to get the values of these settings and write them to the User.config file programmatically via XmlDocument. The thread below shows how to pass values to a .config file: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winformsdatacontrols/thread/cb9b4823-1dc4-4721-9797-f65bd0de6135.

Let me know if this does not help.
Aland Li

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