Question

Is it possible to move applicationSettings to another config file as it is possible with connectionStrings or appSettings?

When I create Settings for my web application using the designer I get applicationSettings section in my web.config such as:

  <applicationSettings>
    <TestWebApplication.Properties.Settings>
      <setting name="AnotherSetting" serializeAs="String">
        <value>Another setting value</value>
      </setting>
    </TestWebApplication.Properties.Settings>
  </applicationSettings>

I would like to be able to move them to another file like appSettings:

<appSettings configSource="config\appsettings.config"/>

I’m working with a project that has lots of settings accessed through class generated with designer and web.config is extremely hard to maintain between multiple environments. It would be even better if I could force Settings class to use appSettings not applicationSettings.

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance for help.

Answer 1

This question was not marked as answer for quite a long time.
Well, under marc_s answer there are comments that explain that this is impossible. I didn’t want to mark marc_s answer as accepted answer because the comments say exactly opposite thing than the answer.
So the answer is that, unfortunately, it is not possible.