C＃控制台应用程序不断创建配置文件

Question

I am new to C#. I am an admin, not a programmer, but I am starting to see how being able to write some console apps could help me with automation. So I wrote one and it works well.

Here is the issue. Every time I execute the exe file for the console application, it generates a .config file. There isn't really anything in the config file. just a few lines. How do I make it stop. The Program.cs is really just calling SCOM's SDK to put a machine into maintenance mode.

Developed in: c# in visual studio 2013 .net version used - 3.5

Answer 1

It's not entirely clear what you're asking. But assuming commenter Jon's guess is correct, and that you really mean that when you build your executable, a .config file is generated, then his advice is correct: just remove the "App.config" file from your project, and no .config file will be generated. The "App.config" file is the template for the .config file; at build time, the file is copied to the output directly, using the executable name and the extension .config.

Please note that this may or may not be safe to do. It probably is. However, some C# projects have configuration information in the .config file that is actually needed. Please see Is app.config required in .Net 4.0 C# projects? for more details on that question.

Finally, I will suggest that for simple automation tasks, you may find other tools more appropriate that even a simple C# console program. The two I use most commonly are PowerShell and plain old batch files, though there are a number of other similar scripting-style automation tools that work on Windows (including a variety of *nix-style shells that are compiled for Windows).