Lately I have been having a bit of trouble with settings files. There was a time where I thought they would be just the thing that you needed for configuration but now I 'm not so sure anymore. Anyway first I will show what settings files are since I think not many people use them. BTW I'm talking about settings files that are used in Visual studio and I think that's they went a bit overboard on them.

So here is how you create them. Just right click your project and then click add and new item.

You could change the name ofcourse but be a good programmer and be lazy .

And this is how it looks after you click Add.





I added 2 settings FormText as String with the scope of User and LabelText with the scope of Application. The scope thing is important since Application scoped settings can only be changed in the designer (Well that was the intention anyway) and User scoped settings can be changed by the "User". Meaning at runtime.

So there you have it the settings file in short.In the next part I will explain how they can be used (even simpler) and what files VS created to make this work.