Question

I have the following in my App.config file

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
     <configuration>
      <appSettings>
       <add key="save" value="C:\Test"/>
      </appSettings>
       </configuration>

And the following in my Main.cs

private void tsSaveImage_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     SaveFileDialog sd = new SaveFileDialog();

     sd.Filter = "TIFF Files (*.tif)|*.tif";
     sd.FilterIndex = 1;
     sd.InitialDirectory = 

}

I would like to know how I can use the value from the key to set the InitialDirectory. The idea being that Once the app is installed I want users to navigate to app.config file and change this just the once.

Is this a good way or are there better methods?

Answer 1

You can set the initail directory from web.config key by

sd .InitialDirectory = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[key].ToString();