Data query file Settings

Question

I have some projects in my Solution and in one of them I will have the Settings configured with some parameters.

My question is: If I reference this project in others, I can read these parameters in each project?

Answer 1

You basically have two options:

• If you want to expose all properties defined in settings, you can change the class modifier Settings of internal for public

• If nay want to expose all properties defined in settings, you can create a class to implement encapsulation. Ex:

  public class AcessoAoSettings 
  {
      public Propriedade1 
      { 
          get 
          {
              return Properties.Settings.Default.Propriedade1;
          }
          set
          {
              Properties.Settings.Default.Propriedade1 = value;
          }
      }
  
      public Propriedade2 
      { 
          get 
          {
              return Properties.Settings.Default.Propriedade2;
          }
          private set;
      }
  }
  

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I particularly prefer the second option because if you want, you can control the write access (in this code, the Propriedade2 does this by leaving the set as private).

Answer 2

You can use the feature "Copy As Link".
In your project B, go to the option to add an existing item, and choose the project A configuration file and add as a link. See the images:

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