Visual Studio: reset user settings when debugging

Question

In a C# Winforms-App I have several user settings stored.

Is there an easy way to clear those settings each time I start debugging the project from Visual Studio 200

Answer 1

Adding to the above answers, here a copy-paste solution that works for most settings:

rmdir /q /s %localappdata%\[company name]\[AppName]

Note that for most cases it's best to delete everything under %localappdata%[company name]. Check the app data stored there and choose what's best for you.

Answer 2

Based on other answers: just search on C: or C:\Users\<YourUser> for user.config and delete or rename that file.

Answer 3

Had the same question and found an answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2117359/488794

Properties.Settings.Default.Reset()

You can use this following statement to only reset if you're debugging:

if(Debugger.IsAttached) 
   Settings.Default.Reset();

tested VS2012 .Net 4.0 (Reference)

Answer 4

Run->Type "appdata"

Navigate to Local->/

Delete all files related to the project

Answer 5

Here are two possible ways to do it:

• use either the pre build or post build event command line, you put delete commands and such in there or run a batch file or script

• have a play with the Start Action options of the start up project, you can specify an external program with command line arguments to be run first

Answer 6

Add a pre-build action to delete:

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\[AppName]\...\[Version]\user.config

or if your version number changes alot just delete

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\[AppName]\