Application Settings - Yet Another Configuration Technology (YACT)
With Visual Studio 2005, MSFT has delivered yet another configuration technology. Let's see:
Registry, Configuration Sections, configuration/appSettings, Dynamic Properties, Profiles, now Application Settings. Let's delve into Application Settings.
Application Settings...
- Have design time support and result in strongly typed objects. (So do Profile Properties.)
- Should not be used for class libraries, since it relys on app.config settings that only exe's are in charge of.