How to access app configuration from a .dll?

Question

I recently broke out a part of my winform app in a .dll. Some of the classes in that dll wants fetch/store user settings. The classes just used the VS generated Settings file s

Answer 1

I would not recommand it (better use your own class for settings), but you can try this:

string sectionName = "applicationSettings/" + 
            appName + ".Properties.Settings";
         System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection section = 
            (System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection)
             System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection(sectionName);
         foreach (SettingElement setting in section.Settings)
         {
            string value = setting.Value.ValueXml.InnerText;
            string name = setting.Name;
            if (name.ToLower().StartsWith(searchName.ToLower()))
            {
               return value;
            }
         }