Finding out where Visual Studio stores your settings file
February 3rd, 2010
When you’re writing managed add-ins for Office, it can be tough to figure out where Visual Studio is storing your settings file (*.dll.config) or any of the other files that it is generating when you Debug your program.
I’ve solved this problem about 6 times, and I don’t ever want to have to solve it again. So here’s the easiest way to find out where your plugin is ACTUALLY being run from:
MessageBox.Show(this.GetType().Assembly.Location.ToString());
And the actual config file is usually in:
C:\Users\UserNameGoesHere\AppData\Local\Microsoft_Corporation
This post was really more of a reminder to myself than anything else. Sorry if it’s boring.