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Silly questions... purely aesthetic... given the picture above. How do you move the values up/down? For example, State belongs grouped with Height/Width/Top/Left (Window Position + state).

Not the only project where I later add stuff and it slowly gets out of order. Can delete/re-add, but that gets tedious and error prone. Can just leave it as is, but it's a minor annoyance.

Am I totally not seeting the setting somewhere to move the stuff around, because I've looked and I just don't see it.

You can't move things around in that screen. It's loaded and saved by the "natural" order. Meaning that new things are placed at the bottom.

Chris Lively 2010-09-30 13:49:31

I know it's not right to expect Excel type options (Cut/Paste/reorder)... but it seems odd that there is no option at all to move things around, other than delete/re-add.

WernerCD 2010-09-30 14:01:36

The problem is that there are 2 different scenarios. Consider that some people (like me) would prefer those options to be in alpha sort order. Others, like you, want to place them in a particular order. From MS's perspective, they chose option 3: just don't worry about it. Which, from a coding perspective, was the easiest path for them.

Chris Lively 2010-09-30 14:06:02

+1 A:

Close the solution. Open the project's Properties\Settings.settings file and re-arrange the <Setting> items. You'll get them back listed in the Settings Designer in the order in which they are listed in that file.

Hans Passant 2010-09-30 14:01:12

I did that while the solution was open (the .cs file). Didn't think to do it with it closed. I assume you mean in a text editor, not VS.

WernerCD 2010-09-30 14:04:02

Simple. Do you have to re-arrange settings.settings? s.s.cs? both?

WernerCD 2010-09-30 14:07:32

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