config files question for console apps / windows apps

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jai hanuman

hi,
where can you set the "startup" directory for the config files? (like
in the ini days). In those days, the project directory would be the
startup and search path for the ini files.

now however, i found that the myapp.exe.config does not get picked
from the folder where myapp.csproj is. It seems to pick it up only
from myapp/bin/debug (or release) folder (when in the IDE). When
i copy the config file there, on every compile it cleans out the folder
and deletes the config file.

In the program i tried to set the AppDomainSetup.ConfigurationFile
to two levels up, but it just ignores that change and the directory
path after the call remains the same as before.

Question: how do you get you program to read the config from the
project root? I do not want a hack (post-build step) to copy the
config to bin/debug.

Thanks a lot.
 
If you are using VS.NET 2003 you can add an app.config file to your project

This 'is' your configuration file - it will be renamed to the correct name of your application.exe.config and copied to the debug or release folder automatically

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RS
 
..NET always takes the config from the same directory as where the exe is
located.
But you can add a config file into your project.
In VB.NET it will be named app.config.
During build ... .NET will copy this file to the same directory as the EXE
and rename it as blabla.exe.config

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