Do I need to make a copy of App.config to client?

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I have an application that saves the connection string in App.config xml file, and I want to save the application .exe file in the server and to make a shortcut on the client computer, but I don't know if I need to make a copy from App.config on the client computer or not?

Posted 22-May-15 9:06am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-05-22T09:29:00

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No, this is not how it works. This file is translated to the file matching your application executable module file name + ".config". You can deploy/install it the same was as any other file you produce in your output directory by building the project.

Please see:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229689%28v=vs.90%29.aspx[^],
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184658.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 22-May-15 9:29am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 22-May-15 9:30am

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fadi77_net 22-May-15 17:15pm

regardless the name, I mean in case I want to create a shortcut from the exe file on the client, can I keep the .config and .exe files on the server and create a shortcut from the .exe on the client?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-May-15 17:39pm

It's not "regardless" the name. It has nothing to do with "client" or "server" (aren't you mixing it with something else, such as Web.config?)
*.exe and *.exe.config are two files in the same directory. Any other files, "shortcuts" or anything else have nothing to do with this mechanism. This is the configuration for the application under the same matching name and same location, nothing else. After all, read it thoroughly.

If you mean some information shared between client and server, just explain your ultimate goal.

—SA

fadi77_net 23-May-15 16:18pm

Dear friend
I want to let the user to save some information about his account in the .config file, and read it, and I want him to read the connection string from the .config file.
But I don't want to install the application on each client computer, I want to install it on the server and make a shortcut from the .exe file to each client computer, so in this case what should I do with .config file? Have I to copy it on the client computer or keep it on the server?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 23-May-15 21:43pm

Then .config file is useless. I explained what it does. Just forget config files. If you have client and server, all communications between that should go from the same channel(s) as its regular communications. You always need to develop some application-layer protocol. For example, it could defined getting general server data right after connection.
—SA

fadi77_net 24-May-15 16:34pm

But it is a shortcut from the original .exe file, and the original .exe file is on the server, is not it?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-May-15 16:54pm

Nothing like that, not even close. Look, forget about any files used in runtime and common between client and server. These parts are totally isolated, in terms of files. There is no such thing. And forget about "shortcut" (link file); it does not play any considerable role in code functionality, is usually used only by OS shell.

You are discussing things along wrong lines. To get some help, explain your ultimate goals.

—SA