The Concept Of App.config File?
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View 3 Repliesis there any tool to validate configuration file?
View 1 RepliesI'm looking for a way to specify the location for the User.config file that is used for storing the My.Settings object. It appears that this is not possible. The problem for me is, I don't want to be responsible for creating several different files on the users computer that really have no use and are difficult to find and clean once an update is released. For most users, this is not a serious problem, as many will probably never update the software, and most will probably only go through a couple of updates. On my system, there are config files for every build of the application, and the same to a lesser extent will be true for my beta testers.
I can understand that MS wants to make sure that no two applications will use the same location for storing application data, but a simple [UserData] [CompanyName][ApplicationName] for storing application data will probably suffice for 99.9999 percent of the legitimate applications in the world. Bogging a user's system down with erroneous files, no matter how small, is an unnecessary drain on system resources and a potential source of problems for the user. It's bad enough that most programs leave bits and pieces of themselves all over a user's system after De-installation - this to me seems only to exaggerate this problem.
Is the only way to get around this problem to write a whole new Settings Class? Is there a way to change the location of the UserConfig file to a more friendly (and more predictable) location that I am not finding for myself? It would seem that having at least the OPTION to specify a location for the User.Config file would be OBVIOUS and easy to implement, so why did they leave this out?
I have this pretty simple application, it uses a webService to transfer data to my servers DataBase. Now it is very important for me to keep this application as one single file, and not having some XML files needed for it to work, but this is the case. I think the XML file holds the information to this webService, so without it the application crashes. Is there a way to get the application to work without this XML file, or a way to put the XML inside the exe archive?
View 1 RepliesI have a class library (Named ADI), that needs some configuration settings from the project using it (like connectionstring, filesystem locations etc).
I want to define these settings in my Windows Forms/Web Projects App.Config or Web.Config, like other settings.
Here is part of my app.config for my windows forms application:
<applicationSettings>
<PhotoImportRobot.My.MySettings>
<setting name="ADIImageRoot" serializeAs="String">
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I have existing file named myapp.exe.config . What I would like to do is have a little app where user could specify path to app database. I know how to get file path but I dont know how to change existing line in myapp.exe.config file. No changes during runtime. Just simple app to change string in app.config file. I would like to enable user to select path to database and store that path in app.config file. Line which I would to change has a string "|DataDirectory|mydatabase.accdb" and i would like to change it with for ex. "C:Myappmydatabase.accdb" ( if it is selected file's path).
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(i dunno what title that describes my question better) well, i'm new in this .NET box. i used by Vb6. and now i want to convert my vb6 app to .NET concept. well now i'm stuck with DataGridView, seems like this control is an "all in one" control and memory eater too. well what i want is to have 2 combobox column in datagridview. say as cboGridID and cboGridDesc
while i type in cboGridID in a row, the cboGridID is dropdowned and select the item which is by Autocomplete, while in cboGridID is active i want the cboGridDesc dropdowned too, and select the item by the same index in cboGridID. and vice versa if i type in cboGridDesc
What i want to do is use a config file to save the value that a user sets in a Folder browser dialog so that i can use the directory they select to write to files in that directory
View 4 RepliesA commercial application we are selling can display a User control written in VB.Net in the interface. I am writing a vertical strip that will display some of our ads to our customers. I would like to be able to control the message and the ads. My idea is to upload an XML file to our server, then have the Vb.Net add-in (user control) download the XML file to a temp location and display the contents as advertisement. 1. Is that a good way to do this? I am open to other suggestions. 2. Is there a way I could embed javascript inside user control? I want to be able to animate the text displayed if possible and I dont know how to do that in Vb.Net user control.
View 4 Repliesmake a user name and password in visual basic6.0,
View 3 RepliesI am replacing a VB6 application with a rewritten counterpart in VB.Net. In the VB6 app there was a 'control' application which presented a form to the user and allowed them to select a 'client' from a drop down list. Selecting a client caused the reading of an ini file which set client-specific parameters, including the program names of several dlls, which were also written in VB6 and registered on the subject machine.
For example, each 'client' had a different letter format, and the letter was written by the selected dll. This made everything late-bound, but there is only one user. Most of all, it made it convenient to continually update individual letters by updating only that dll, and dropping the dll on top of the old one. Thus the (clerical) user had only to be told to save this file to the usual folder. I could have compiled everything together in one exe, making my updates larger and more complex.
In re-doing this in VB.Net, how should I replace this sort of approach?
I could tie everything together in one big project (and compile it to an exe which is the large update I was avoiding). Should I just do that? If I continue with the approach of having my client-specific (.net) dlls compiled separately, does this make sense in the .Net world? How do I call them? Do they need to be registered as they were before? What's the right way to do this and still give me the flexibility I had?
I want to compress and decompress folder and subfolder in vb.net in windows application.i am using vs2008.
View 10 RepliesI'm attempting to update some values in the web.config file from code during an install process.So far I've found this for updating the connection string,[code]However I need to update another section and I'm not sure how. I have the settings for an email and I'm not sure how to update them. Relevant web.config section below, [code]
View 2 RepliesCan anybody tell me how can i add app.config file to the project?
i try add new item in the project but i can not see any app.config template.
I've never thought about it before; but I recently learned how I could modify the app.config file to add/remove trace listeners (for example, to redirect all of the Trace.WriteLine output to a text file).But I don't quite understand how it works? I know the corresponding C# code to do the same as the config (in this example) - does that code get generated/executed before my application's entry point?
View 3 RepliesI would like to be able to read the entire document, and make changes to it before run time. I am making a deployment tool for my application, and most of my customers do not want to rename their servers, nor do I want to have to rename the server in the connection string section of the app config file.
View 3 RepliesMy configuration file has the following settings for logging. I want to read the Switches value attribute to see if Debug is set to 4 (Debug logging) so that I can retain some temporary files. How to I read the value using configuration manager?
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<system.diagnostics>
<switches>
<add name="TraceLevel" value="4" />
</switches>
</system.diagnostics>
I need to develop an project in VB.Net 2005 or 2008 and SQL 2005 for the database. It is not possible to create an App Config file(To create an connection to the Database).Is it possible to use/create an connection with similar functionality, and what is the replacement of this function.
View 1 RepliesI'm using this code:
Dim tfLines() As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines("Config.ini")
For Each line As String In tfLines
Dim arr As String() = line.Split("="c)
If arr(0) = "title" Then textbox1.text = arr(1)
Next
To read from a config file that looks like this this:Quotetitle=this is the text Now is the question, how can I save to the config file?Like, replace "this is the text" with the new text in textbox1.text
As a practice exercise at my college we have to make a simple room booking system, complete with its own config file. We're not allowed to use the one built into VB.NET (the professor wants us to adapt to not relying on things like that) so I've made my own. This is a sample:
// Config file.
// First column is the variable name that will be used to
// reference the value in the second column. Seperate each
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How to set app config file so we can set app config file after installation of the software.
View 3 RepliesI was under the impression Visual Studio 2008 (and probably other versions) already made an app.config file for Forms applications. I've edited the app.config on multiple occasions without creating a new app.config file. However, I just created a new application and I can't find the app.config file.I hit Show All files and it still doesn't show. I know I've seen the answer somewhere before, but I can't remember where.
View 3 RepliesI will connect with one database from several machines. In all machines they need to insert the data in single table. In that time: how to use multithreading and deadlock concepts? Using the MySQL database and also MS Access.
View 2 RepliesI want to create a website like a forum to talk about new technology in my community.This website will useful for students also people in my country to improve their knowledge..So let share me some concepts or idea to research more about it.
View 4 RepliesSo I've just started up my most recent website:[URL]and it would seem that every 5th or 6th time I publish my project out of VS 2005 the Web.Config file corrupts and loses its connection string to the database and a nasty exception gets thrown stating that the web.config file does not contain the connection string that all of my SQLDataSource objects use.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to use an 'SQL Express' (or is it SQL Compact?) .MDF file as the datasource on a simple website using a Chart control.
Locally, it works great; but only if the 'AttachDbFilename' has the full path. Am I messing something up, or does it really need to be full path? If so - how do I accomplish this without using something like Server.MapPath()?
Every time I turn on my computer this little message box comes up. By simply clicking OK it goes away. Is there a problem and how can I get rid of it.
View 3 RepliesI have created a VB application with some web references created at design time. The URL property of each is set to Dynamic which has created a string value in My.Settings and in the app.config file.
During testing and debug the application uses one set of web services and when live it needs to use a different set of web references with a different URL. I thought I'd be able to change the values for these URL's in the MyApplication.exe.config file once installed on the PC but the application still sees the URL which was used to create the web reference at design time.
I've searched forums and this should be the way it works but I can't understand why it isn't picking up the URL for the web service from the exe.config file once I have installed the application.
I'm using app.config to store database connection strings.My question is. Is it possible to manual change configuration file on the user's computer after installing msi file. for example if I decide to change to the dev database vs live.
View 1 RepliesI have written a vb.net class library that pulls the url for a web service out of my.settings. However, at runtime it no longer bothers to read the class.dll.config file that it made.I want to deploy this dll in different environments and be able to custom choose the relative webservice via the class.dll.config file.
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