app.config configSections custom settings can not find schema information

Question

Hi all,

I am just learning about app.config in respect of creating custom sections. I have that part working, it compiles and gets the information out as required but I get warnings about it could not find the schema information.

I have done a bit of googling and could not find a simple explanation of this situation.

The approach (that seems to make sense to me at the moment) would be to have a schema file for each section within that project. I understand how to create a schema file, but do not know how I would like this into the project.

Also when it is compiled and deployed to another machine I presume that schema file would need to be copied across as well.

Thanks for any and all help

Jon

Answer 1

Hi Jon, Try linking the app.config file to the corresponding schema (ussually you can find it on C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\xml\Schemas\DotNetConfig.xsd) ,to do so just open the app.config file in visual studio, open the properties window (F4) and put the path above to schemas. Pablo.