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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:02:00+00:00

I’ve been experimenting with the project settings feature of C# projects, and I’d like

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I’ve been experimenting with the project settings feature of C# projects, and I’d like to find the xml file containing all the user settings. It should be in my App Data folder in Documents and Settings, but from there I can’t seem to find it.

Where does this file get saved?

Edit:
I am using Windows XP and have Show Hidden files turned on and Hide OS files turned off.

Based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/621265, it looks like it should be stored at:

%AppData%\[CompanyName]\[ExeName]_Url_[some_hash]\[Version]\

I’ve checked in All Users/Application Data and in my username/Application Data, but can’t see anything. I also don’t know where CompanyName and ExeName are being populated from–I’m just running the project through the VS debugger.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks for all of your comments. I ended up searching for a known string that should have been in settings file, and was able to find it that way(thanks to @aqwert). The path turned out to be:

    C:\Documents and Settings\[myusername]\**Local Settings**\Application Data
  \[MyProjectName]\[MyProjectName].vshost.[random characters]\1.0.0.0\user.config

    The problem was that I wasn’t looking inside the Local Settings folder. I had another Application Data folder inside my user folder just like Kenny did in his post.

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