[Mono-osx] ConfigurationErrorsException loading user settings (duplicate key)

[Matt Emson]

d_v wrote:

How are you reading your settings? What does your config file look like? 
So if you have this file saved as "app.config":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="MySettingKey" value="My setting value"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

I don't know how the Mono compiler handles config files, but if you do 
the above in a C#project and then compile it, it'll get moved and 
renamed to "YourExeName.exe.config".


If you then use something like:

class TestConfig
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    string setting = 
System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MySettingKey"];
    System.Console.WriteLine(setting);
  }
}

Does that fail? That's a pretty basic thing that should work, if it 
doesn't.

If you are speaking about Web based stuff, surely it should be 
"Web.config"? AFAIK this never gets moved or renamed.

M
> I experienced the same thing. Thanks for your solution!
>
> I have had mixed results:
> In two different test applications, with a web service reference, I seem to
> be OK with both user and application configuration settings when creating a
> new web service instance.
>
> But my main application will fail, with a web service reference, if I have
> mixed scopes when creating a new instance of the web service. It was still
> an error even when I removed all other configuration settings.  But when I
> changed the last remaining web service reference scope to "User" as you
> suggested, it worked.