Windows Service Config File C#
c#, configuration
Solution
I located the error and it was related to file permissions. After installing the service, my local user account didn't have access to modify the app.exe.config file.
The tool I was using to edit was not informing me it was being denied access to save the file - that's notepad++ if anyone is interested - so I couldn't see that it wasn't saving over the old config file.
Solved now, thanks everyone.
Martin.
Problem
I've developed a windows service application using Visual Studio 2008 / C#. I have an app.config file in the project. When installed, the app.exe.config file appears beside the executable but it appears not to be reading the values from it when I try to access them through ConfigurationManager.AppSettings. Has it copied the config file elsewhere or is there some other problem I don't know about? Thanks in advance, Martin. Edit: The config file name is infact my_exe_file_name.exe.config, it looks like: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key="RuntimeFrequency" value="3" /> </appSettings> </configuration> ``` and I am trying to read via: ``` ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RuntimeFrequency"] ``` The debug value I continually see is '1' and not '3'. Am I doing something wrong here?