Settings.settings file location

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Hi all,

I've been giving some work to do on an existing Outlook add on written in c#. I have no access to the original authors. This plugin utilises the C# Properties.Settings.Default object to store some data at user level. According to documentation the path to this file is:

<Profile Directory>\<Company Name>\<App Name>_<Evidence Type>_<Evidence Hash>\<Version>\user.config

Where <Profile Directory> in this case is the users local appdata directory. <Company Name> should be taken from the AssemblyInfo.cs file, which has an entry [assembly: AssemblyCompany("company_name")].

My problem is that regardless of how I set company_name the file is always created in "Microsoft_Corporation" (the underscore is intentional). Is this a default behaviour of an Outlook Add on? or have I missed a possible reference somewhere in my code?

note: I've searched the code for "Microsoft_Corporation" to no avail.

Posted 5-Jan-11 3:06am

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-01-05T03:13:00

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If I remember correctly...

User-scope settings are stored in the user's appdata folder. Application-scope settings are stored in C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\My_Company\. If your settings file doesn't contain any Application-scope settings, you won't have a company folder.

Posted 5-Jan-11 3:13am

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onceforgotten 5-Jan-11 9:28am

The file is currently being stored in c:\users\my name\appdata\Microsoft_Corporation\. But the AssemblyInfo.cs file has the company name as my_company. This is the part that I'm confused about, I don't know where the "Microsoft_Corporation" company name is being generated. I've scoured the code for a reference to it but cant find one, so I wondered maybe if this was a standard behaviour of outlook add ons.

This page here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rprabhu/archive/2005/06/29/433979.aspx has a nice faq about settings files, and mentions a "fallback" if the company attribute in assemblyinfo is missing, but it doesn't say what that fallback is, and as I said, the name is present in my assemblyinfo.