Visual Studio: reset user settings when debugging

Question

In a C# Winforms-App I have several user settings stored.

Is there an easy way to clear those settings each time I start debugging the project from Visual Studio 2008?

Otherwise it always starts up with the settings from the last debug-session.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Add a pre-build action to delete:

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\[AppName]\...\[Version]\user.config

or if your version number changes alot just delete

%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\[AppName]\

Answer 2

Here are two possible ways to do it:

• use either the pre build or post build event command line, you put delete commands and such in there or run a batch file or script

• have a play with the Start Action options of the start up project, you can specify an external program with command line arguments to be run first