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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:14:05+00:00

Can a component designer access and modify the app.config or web.config file of a

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Can a component designer access and modify the app.config or web.config file of a project at design time? More specifically, is there some hosting service exposed by VS to do this ‘the proper way’ ? I know I can locate the .config file myself, open it and have my way with it as I please, but I want this to go through the VS sanctioned way, primarily because of source control integration concerns.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can hook up an IEventBindingService (I linked to the .NET 2.0 version, there are 1.1, 3.0, and 3.5 versions too)

    Excerpt from the page:

    The event binding service provides a
    way to link an event handler with a
    component event from designer code.

    You can put your custom app.config manipulating code into the event handler that you expose.

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