Read Settings from Dependent Project in C#-CodePudding

I just want to start by saying that I've done a lot of research but couldn't find an answer, hence the post.

I'm adding user settings functionality to my app which works as a plugin inside a common off the shelf program for architecture (called Autodesk Revit). The main project (let's call it MainProj) has several dependencies including a project that handles logging and usage (let's call it Loggers). I created a Settings file inside the Loggers project with the goal to have users change the logging level from Error to Debug when there are issues so I can ask them to make the change and send me the log.

The issue I'm facing is that when I change the log level directly inside the config file and re-run the command from within Revit, the change doesn't get translated into the log, as if the log level is somehow compiled during design and is never changed.

I actually tried to reproduce the problem in a simpler way and created a little console program and I'm facing the same issue. Below is the code from the Loggers project.

namespace Loggers
{
    public static class Logger
    {
        public static string RunMe()
        {
            if (Properties.Settings.Default.LogMode == "Debug") { return "DEBUG"; }
            else return "NOTHING";
        }
    }
}

I then changed the LogMode property from Debug to anything else in the config file but the console kept on returning DEBUG.

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Console.WriteLine(Logger.RunMe());
    Console.Read();
}

I also tried changing the setting from user to application and editing its value in the config file and re-running the command but the outcome was the same.

Any help would be very much appreciated. I've been stuck on this for a while. Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

Thanks to @BurnsBA, the link you shared had comments saying that the user.config lives in a different folder and it's not created until the user changes a setting. This made me understand that there wasn't a point in manually editing the app.config and expect the settings to work.

I then did some testing by creating a simple form with a checkbox linked to the Property I wanted to change and the user.config file gets created straight after I call the Save() method on the Properties.

private void btnOK_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (chkDebugMode.Checked == true)
        Loggers.Properties.Settings.Default.LogMode = "Debug";
    else Loggers.Properties.Settings.Default.LogMode = "Error";

    Loggers.Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
    Close();
}