Need help with App Settings (Application, vs. User, Persistence. etc)

I added a Settings File to my vs2008 c# Project. I have defined a number of User level settings.

A weird thing that I noticed is when I try to access the Settings inmy code, I get a compile error when using
sFavoriteColor = Properties.Settings.Default.MyFavoriteColorSetting;
Error 1 'myProject.Properties.Settings' does not contain a definition for 'Default'

If I remove the reference to Properties, I can compile and read the settings.
sFavoriteColor = Settings.Default.MyFavoriteColorSetting;
This does not seem to match documentation on how to access Properites/Settings.

Has anyone else ever seen this?
Is there something obvious that I am doing wrong?

I have confirmed that changes to my Settings are persisted back to the User's user.config file, but occassionally, my settings seem to get reset to the App Default values. Perhaps this is due to something else I am doing (rebuild, version change, etc).

I appreciate any knowledge on persisting user settings that can be bestowed.

thanks

How did you create the Settings file for the project? Was it created when the project was created? If not, then the settings files are probably not in the correct place. If you created the settings file after the project was created, then you probably created the settings by adding as a new project item, but that does not create the settings in the correct place. So to fix it you can probably just (in the Solution Explorer) drag the settings so it is under the Properties folder. What I suggest doing though is to go to the project properties and click on the Settings in the menu to the left. If you get a message saying the settings do not exist, then click on the message to create settings. Then you just need to copy your settings into there and you will put this problem behind you and you will know that in the future you need to create settings files from in the project properties.

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Sam Hobbs17y ago
How did you create the Settings file for the project? Was it created when the project was created? If not, then the settings files are probably not in the correct place. If you created the settings file after the project was created, then you probably created the settings by adding as a new project item, but that does not create the settings in the correct place. So to fix it you can probably just (in the Solution Explorer) drag the settings so it is under the Properties folder. What I suggest doing though is to go to the project properties and click on the Settings in the menu to the left. If you get a message saying the settings do not exist, then click on the message to create settings. Then you just need to copy your settings into there and you will put this problem behind you and you will know that in the future you need to create settings files from in the project properties.
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