Hi,

When creating a Property in a Settings file, it is possible to select the desired type for your property. I want to have a HashTable (or another key-value collection) in my settings file.

At first is it not possible to hava a default value for the HashTable. So, no problem, in my code I initialize the HashTable to new, I put my values in it and I save the properties file. So far, everything goes fine, no error. But when I want to read again my saved properties, I see that nothing has been saved!!!

Any suggestions? Below an example of what I'm trying to do...

private void AbstractChildForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

if (Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations != null &&Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations[Name] != null)

int[] values = Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations[Name] as int[];

this.Location = new Point(values[0], values[1]);

this.Size = new Size(values[2], values[3]);

private void AbstractChildForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)

int[] values = new int[4];

values[0] = this.Location.X;

values[1] = this.Location.Y;

values[2] = this.Size.Width;

values[3] = this.Size.Height;

if (Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations == null)

Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations = new System.Collections.Hashtable();

Properties.FormSettings.Default.FormLocations[Name] = values;

Properties.FormSettings.Default.Save();