Application with confi file in the running folder

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Hello,

I have confi settings in my application

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
    <requiredRuntime version="v4.0.20506" />
  </startup>
</configuration>

i want to deploy my exe without confi file.

thanks

Posted 5-Aug-14 20:53pm

nikita2410

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Prashant. B. Chavan 6-Aug-14 3:21am

Have you tried running application without confi file? Does it shown some runtime error?

I think exe should work confi file.

nikita2410 6-Aug-14 3:58am

Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.

Prashant. B. Chavan 6-Aug-14 7:09am

Can you post error description? I tried same config file with same XML data and it works without <appname>.exe.config file.

nikita2410 7-Aug-14 0:50am

I have a dll which uses v2.0.50727 which i want to include in version 4. So i created the above mentioned confi file.
But if i run the exe withour app.exe.config then it doesnt load the dll.

Prashant. B. Chavan 7-Aug-14 11:01am

I replicated the scenario exactly same way you explained. But, it worked for me without .config file. Please post error snap or description.

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Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ) · Answer 1 · 2014-08-05T22:28:00

Refer - ClickOnce configuration deployment - configuration files[^]

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The config file should get published automatically; if not, ensure that it is configured to copy to output, and (if that fails) check the publish files (project properties -> publish -> application files; the config file should be marked as "include (auto)" or "include").

You shouldn't attempt to update anything in the app install directory. That is a bad idea generally (since you can't assume you can update "program files" unless you're an admin), but the same holds true for ClickOnce too.

Just create a settings file with some user settings; these will be saved in the user's profile, so can be updated reliably. You can't edit the files deployed via ClickOnce; even if you had access, it would (by default) break the hashing function, and it will refuse to load them. You can turn off the hashing, but... this still isn't a great idea.