I’m using the Windows Forms Application settings architecture (or however you’re supposed to refer to it) and am successfully saving user settings to AppData.
What I want to do is have some settings common to all users of a particular machine and some settings which roam with users across machines. For example I have some settings relating to a peripheral attached to the computer (model, settings etc.) and some user preferences like user interface colours.
The colours preferences should roam with the user, but the peripheral settings should stay on the local computer no matter who’s logged on.
How can I mark these types of settings so that some get stored in All Users/AppData/... and some in [user name]/AppData/...?
Note that I don’t want Application level settings – each computer the app will be installed on will have different settings.
I’m targetting .Net 3.0 if that makes a difference.
It is done through the [SettingsManageability] attribute. The LocalFileSettingsProvider class checks it, the presence of the attribute appears to be enough, as long as the app isn’t ClickOnce deployed. Looks pretty useless, the settings designer has no support for it.