Hi,
I'm posting for the second time on a different forum as the previous one was apparently wrong.

i have developed an application exploiting the user settings fileto save some data related to the user activities. I access the data through "Settings.User.Default" object.
The probelm came when i have compiled a new version of the software and ran it on my machine... all the saved user settings goes away.

I have checked inside the "C:\Documents and Settings\$User$\Local Settings\Application Data\$manifacturer$\$application$" and in fact there is a new folder named with the new version and a brand new setting file inside, obvously empty.

Is it possible to say somehowthat the new version of the software will have to use the old setting file as soon as it ran into a machine where the application was previously installed?

In the other forum i've been suggested to built a custom action in the installer to merg/copy the settings file but i would prefer not to follow this way and to solve it, if possible, on a app level.

Thanks a lot for any help,

Filo

Check out the ApplicationSettingsBase.Upgrade and GetPreviousVersion methods.

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Hans Passant.

Check out the ApplicationSettingsBase.Upgrade and GetPreviousVersion methods.

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Hans Passant.

That's exactly what i was looking for!

Thanks a lot.

Filo