
Application Deployment • Chapter 13 625
Application Configuration Files
The application configuration file is located in the installation directory of the
application and is named after the application’s program executable with .config
added to the name, thus program.exe.config.The CLR checks the application
directory for that file. Because an application does not need its own configuration
file, it can completely depend on the machine configuration file, but nothing will
happen if it is not there.Take notice of this! If you put it somewhere else, or use
a different suffix, the CLR will not find it, which may mean that the CLR is not
able to load the application. ...