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How To: Create a new setting at design time

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You can create a new setting at design time by using the Settings designer in Visual Studio. The Settings designer is a grid-style interface that allows you to create new settings and specify properties for those settings. You must specify Name, Value, Type and Scope for your new settings. Once a setting is created, it is accessible in code.

Create a new setting at design time in C#

  1. Open Visual Studio.

  2. In Solution Explorer, expand the Properties node of your project.

  3. Double-click the .settings file in which you want to add a new setting. The default name for this file is Settings.settings.

  4. In the Settings designer, set the Name, Value, Type, and Scope for your setting. Each row represents a single setting.

Create a new setting at design time in Visual Basic

  1. Open Visual Studio.

  2. In Solution Explorer, right-click your project node and choose Properties.

  3. In the Properties page, select the Settings tab.

  4. In the Settings designer, set the Name, Value, Type, and Scope for your setting. Each row represents a single setting.

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