Question

I have a winforms app which has an app.config.

If the config file is not present it is automatically generated. However it is not generated in the directory that the app is running from. I can’t find it anywhere.

I know it is generated because my setting are persisted as expected.

So where has mono put it.

(running on ubuntu 10.04) mono 2.4.

It seems that on windows a deleted .config file is not regenerated (I get an error) until I do a rebuild, But on mono it quite happily continues saving my settings after I delete the config file.

Answer 1

Most times on Linux, the user does not have write access to the location of the binary.

I would look for it somewhere in your home directory, probably in ~/.config.