I am in the process of centralizing my application settings into one location and I've chosen to use the the Settings collection in my common library to do so.
I have moved all these settings into their own file that gets pulled into my app.config using config source:
<Common.Properties.Settings configSource="config\Common.Properties.Settings.config" />
This allows me to use the "Add Link" capability of Visual Studio to override the default library settings with the imported config file within my web and test applications.
Now, I want to be able to access all of these great Settings values from within my other libraries, and have found that I can do so simply by making the generated class public:
File: Common.Properties.Settings
public sealed partial class Settings : global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase
This lets me get access to things like Common.Properties.Settings.Default.MySetting from within my web application or unit tests. However, the problem is that whenever a new setting is added, the Setting.settings file is regenerated by Visual Studio, and flips the Settings class back to internal:
internal sealed partial class Settings : global::System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase
So my question is whether anyone knows of a way to override this, or perhaps suggest a macro approach or some other method to ensure that after the Settings.settings file is rebuilt, this class is set to public.
Thanks!