Looping Through Application Settings

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I have a Windows Form application with several application settings set. How
is it possible for me to loop through those settings? Is it possible at all?

Thank you

[Bob Johnson]

Re: Looping Through Application Settings

<< Is it possible at all? >>

No - this is logically and technically impossible.



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>I have a Windows Form application with several application settings set.
>How
is it possible for me to loop through those settings? Is it possible at
all?
>
Thank you
>
>
>

[MWS]

Re: Looping Through Application Settings

On Jul 31, 12:20 pm, RHPT <R...@online.no spamwrote:

I have a Windows Form application with several application settings set. How
is it possible for me to loop through those settings? Is it possible at all?
>
Thank you

NameValueCollec tion settings;
settings = System.Configur ation.Configura tionManager.App Settings;

foreach (string keyname in settings.AllKey s)
{
messagebox.show (keyname)
{

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

RE: Looping Through Application Settings

Hi,

As MWS suggested, the Settings is of type NameValueCollec tion and you can
use its AllKeys to iterate.

I'm not sure if this is what you wanted. Please feel free to let us know if
you have further questions. Thanks.


Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Re: Looping Through Application Settings



"MWS" wrote:

>
NameValueCollec tion settings;
settings = System.Configur ation.Configura tionManager.App Settings;
>
foreach (string keyname in settings.AllKey s)
{
messagebox.show (keyname)
{
>

This returns the error "The type or namespace name 'ConfigurationM anager'
does not exist in the namespace 'System.Configu ration'. I have to use
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings.

And that does not return any of my app settings.

[Jesse Houwing]

Re: Looping Through Application Settings

Hello RHPT,

"MWS" wrote:
>

>NameValueColle ction settings;
>settings = System.Configur ation.Configura tionManager.App Settings;
>foreach (string keyname in settings.AllKey s)
>{
>messagebox.sho w(keyname)
>{

This returns the error "The type or namespace name
'ConfigurationM anager' does not exist in the namespace
'System.Configu ration'. I have to use
System.Configur ation.Configura tionSettings.Ap pSettings.
>
And that does not return any of my app settings.
>

You need to add a reference to the System.Configur ation to your project.
These classes used to reside in the .NET Core Assembly, but were moved to
a separate assembly for .NET 2.0.

Jesse

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Re: Looping Through Application Settings

Hi,

Are you using the Client Settings (created with the Settings Designer)? In
other words, you have a strong typed settings class and you access the
settings via strong typed property name:

Settings.Defaul t.MyProperty


If this is the case, then the AppSettings will not help here since it's
using different approaches.


To get the property name list, you can use Settings.Defaul t.Properties to
iterate them:

foreach (SettingsProper ty sp in Settings.Defaul t.Properties)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(sp.Name);
}

After you get the property name, then you can use reflection on the
Settings.Defaul t object to get the property value. You can also use
SettingsPropert y.DefaultValue to get the default value when you input in
the settings designer.


Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Re: Looping Through Application Settings


""Walter Wang [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi,
>
Are you using the Client Settings (created with the Settings Designer)? In
other words, you have a strong typed settings class and you access the
settings via strong typed property name:
>
Settings.Defaul t.MyProperty
>
>
If this is the case, then the AppSettings will not help here since it's
using different approaches.
>
>
To get the property name list, you can use Settings.Defaul t.Properties to
iterate them:
>
foreach (SettingsProper ty sp in Settings.Defaul t.Properties)
{
Console.WriteLi ne(sp.Name);
}
>
After you get the property name, then you can use reflection on the
Settings.Defaul t object to get the property value. You can also use
SettingsPropert y.DefaultValue to get the default value when you input in
the settings designer.

Thank you. This is what I was looking for. I should have asked my question
better.