I am sorry, can anybody tell me why we are using app.config.
Could you please give me a real time excample of its usage
I heared if you want to set our code to run in a spcific version of CLR we can configure it in app.config. Can anybody explain these scenario
I would greatly appriciate anybody can provide separate answers for all my questions.
real time use of app.config
Grahame Edwards
the configuration file is important in .net framewrok you can use it to control and store many things
in your application like in previouse platform we stored this values in registry or in .ini file
for example you can store your Connection string in it instead of hardecode it in your application so you can change it in the future iwhith out the need to recompile your application
Configuration file has many categories and sections which control many things like startup settings runtime settings ,remoting etc
about what you asked for (to bind to specific CLR version) you can set this information via <startup> elemnt which has to childs
<requiredRuntime> Specifies that the application supports only version 2.0 for example
<supportedRuntime> Specifies which versions of the common language runtime the application supports ie v1 and two
For example
<startup>
<requiredRuntime version="v1.0.3705"/>
<!-- order of these keys determines preference -->
<supportedRuntime version="v1.1.4322"/>
<supportedRuntime version="v1.0.3705"/>
</startup>
another thing you can store many option using setting dialog
Write click on your project ->Properties->select Settings tab->write the keys and values
you can access them later using Setting class
scribework
Thanks a lot. Your reply is accurate enough to clear my doubts about config files. Thanks