Application Settings. How to iterate ?

[davebarkshire]

Visual Studio 2008 / C# / windows application I have some application settings and would like to iterate through them so that I can put them into a list. So far I have not been able to find a way. I've tried to use an enumerator

IEnumerator enuEnumerator = Properties.Settings.Default.Properties.GetEnumerator();
while (enuEnumerator.MoveNext())
{
MessageBox.Show(enuEnumerator.Current.ToString());
}

but the string is "System.Configuration.SettingsProperty" Also, I cannot use an indexer because a string is required raher than a number...

Properties.Settings.Default.Properties[i]

Does anyone know how to do this? :confused:

[Alan N]

Hi, If you cast the enumerator's Current value to a SettingsProperty then you should get to the information you need. My code essentially does that and shows how to enumerate both the default and current value collections.

internal void ShowSettings() {
  Console.WriteLine("Default values");
  SettingsPropertyCollection spc = Properties.Settings.Default.Properties;
  foreach (SettingsProperty sp in spc) {
    Console.WriteLine("{0} '{1}'", sp.Name, sp.DefaultValue);
  }

  Console.WriteLine("\\nCurrent values");
  SettingsPropertyValueCollection spvc = Properties.Settings.Default.PropertyValues;
  foreach (SettingsPropertyValue spv in spvc) {
    Console.WriteLine("{0} '{1}'", spv.Name, spv.PropertyValue);
  }
}

Alan.

[Lost User]

You can iterate by just accessing the settings property in a foreach loop

        foreach (System.Configuration.SettingsProperty prop in Properties.Settings.Default.Properties)
        {
            //prop.DefaultValue.ToString();
        }

[davebarkshire]

Thanks both for your prompt responses. Case closed.