Comments on: Saving User and Application Settings in WinForms

By: Amgad Suliman

Amgad Suliman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:38:09 +0000

It seems like both of you are getting the same error, you are trying to assign a value to a setting that has an application scope. Settings with application scope are meant for things like connection strings, which the user cannot change at run time.

So if that’s the case just delete the setting and create a new one with the same name and change the scope to User. That should solve it.

By: me too

me too — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:02:39 +0000

I get cannot be assigned to — it is read only trying to assign to a setting. this doesn’t work. application scope.

By: Amgad Suliman

Amgad Suliman — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:22:31 +0000

Hello Nisse,
Could you give me some more details like, did you create SQLFormsTestConnectionString using the Settings tab and what is the scope?

By: Nisse

Nisse — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:27:52 +0000

Hello

When I use this row
Properties.Settings.Default.SQLFormsTestConnectionString = tbConnectionString.Text;

I get compiler error.
Inventory.Properties.Settings.SQLFormsTestConnectionString’ cannot be assigned to — it is read only

So… what is your solution to this and it seams that there is none.