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?
Best Answer
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.