Storing configuration in *exe.config file

[TimoNieland]

Product, version and build: PowerShell Studio 2016 (5.3.130.0)
32 or 64 bit version of product: x64
Operating system: Windows Server 2012 R2
32 or 64 bit OS: x64
PowerShell Version: 4.0

I would like to use the *exe.config file, which is generated in the Packaging process, to store configuration information used by my PowerShell script/application. But I could not find any information, if this is possible or how to achive this. I am aware about the possibilities to store/load Variables with Export-CliXml, but I would like to achieve this via PowerShell Studio features.

[davidc]

PowerShell Studio doesn't offer any options to configure the application .config file other than what is automatically generated.

You can, after generating the config file for the first time, disable the option the generated the config file. This way any changes you make to the config file will not get overwritten by the packager.

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As for access the config settings, you can look at using the ConfigurationManager class:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/librar ... nager.aspx

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1. Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Configuration
2. [System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager]

I recommend posting on the PowerShell forum for further assistance on how to read the settings.