Do binding redirects in app.config for class libraries do anything?

Question

The VS solutions I often work with consist of a single executable project (console app, web app) and many class library projects that are all r

Answer 1

No, only the app.config of the executable will have effect. For example, if you have a console app hosting a WCF service, and in your WCF service you make use of, for example, ConfigurationManager.AppSettings, the AppSettings will come from the console host app.config file. If you spin up another console application (ConsoleClient) to try connecting to the ConsoleHost, then in the parts where the ConsoleClient can be said to be "executing" (for example in its main method), it will use ConsoleClient's app.config, but as soon as it begins using the WCF service, the WCF service will delegate to use ConsoleHost's app.config. (Note that this last point is more relevant to the details behind WCF though.)

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