Console application is not taking config values from its config file after deployment

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In my console application,it has application settings created and also has app.config file.

After build I get appname.exe and appname.exe.config (it has test configuration values).

when I deploy these files on production and change some entries in appname.exe.config according to Production and run the application via scheduler.

it still gets test configuration values somehow, is there something I messed up with the configuration values. for me it looks like somehow appname.exe has taken the entries from application settings and not loading appname.exe.config

console-application application-settings app-config c#
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If I recall correctly, if you are using the Settings UI in Visual Studio to setup your configuration...

  • Settings are stored within the application's configuration file appname.exe.config
  • these settings also have a corresponding default value that are embedded within the application
    • the default value is what you type into the Settings UI
  • if the configuration values cannot be read from the appname.exe.config, then the default values are returned.
user_9496810

this happens because your setting scope is set to Application rather than user

just open your *.settings file in visual studio and change the scope of your property to user

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