Assembly Settings

In writing applications and libraries using C#, we may have frequently encountered a need to define configuration data as settings. This we define with a settings file and keep it under the Properties folder of the assembly source and consequently has the Properties namespace. As different libraries are loaded into the assembly, each assembly may define its own settings that can be used as is or overridden by the calling application. The settings are compiled into the assembly's resource which one can view from the assembly. When more than one assembly is referenced in the current application, these settings are resolved in a by first looking up in the local settings file and then any other settings provider which derive from the abstract SettingsProvider class. The provider that a wrapper class uses is determined by decorating the wrapper class with the SettingsProviderAttribute.