I have a solution in Visual Studio 2008 which contains multiple C# projects. Each project has it\'s own config file (App.config and Settings.settings). This makes sense architec
After more digging, I found this quite useful post
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/2710647c-6414-42c4-90b7-fd7603f55ae0/
Just in case anyone runs into the same issue, the above seems to be the most practical way of getting around it. Although beware that with this solution creating setup packages may become tedious:
http://bytes.com/groups/net-c/498720-app-config-dll-not-getting-added-setup-project