C# - User Settings broken

Question

We had a rare exception occur when reading the standard .Net user settings (this are the ones found in \"project properties\" in VS 2008):

System.Configurati         


        

Answer 1

[STAThread]
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
    try
    {
        // ...
    }
    catch (System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException ex)
    {   
        var config = ((System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException)ex.InnerException).Filename;
        // notify user, ask them to restart
        System.IO.File.Delete(config);
        Application.Exit();
    }
}