vs2005:

I am finding that the app.config settings are not being read by user 
controls on a form at design time. The designer can't load in this case 
and throws up it's error message. There are a few other threads on this 
  but none seem to have an answer. For example:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/browse_thread/thread/74039dbbe18e0e79/4a4b69799a7ff0d8?lnk=st&q=&rnum=23&hl=en#4a4b69799a7ff0d8


It's very annoying. At run time the program is ok, the settings are 
read. Is there a fix for this? The only thing I can do now is test for 
DesignMode in the user control and skip certain lines of code.

Paul wrote:

> vs2005:
> 
> I am finding that the app.config settings are not being read by user 
> controls on a form at design time. The designer can't load in this case 
> and throws up it's error message. There are a few other threads on this 
>  but none seem to have an answer. For example:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/browse_thread/thread/74039dbbe18e0e79/4a4b69799a7ff0d8?lnk=st&q=&rnum=23&hl=en#4a4b69799a7ff0d8 
> 
> 
> 
> It's very annoying. At run time the program is ok, the settings are 
> read. Is there a fix for this? The only thing I can do now is test for 
> DesignMode in the user control and skip certain lines of code.


I am wrong. It appears that OnLoad is only called for usercontrols when 
using the forms designer, not for the main form? App.config settings are 
not available in the designer period, AFAIK. I need a good backgrounder 
on the details for this.