无法从app.Config读取设置

Question

I have an addin that is installed on various user's machine and on most it is working fine. But for few users it is unable to load the settings from config file. The file name is xxAddin.dll.config and it has some key and values pairs. eg

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?
configuration
  appSettings
    add key="KeywordDBPath" value="somepath" 
    add key="keywordServer" value="someserver" /
  /appSettings
/configuration

For most of the machines this is installed on, it works fine. But for few users the key values return null .

I have checked for config file in the installation folder and it exists and has the same contents. To be sure that installation was not corrupt, the application was installed again but no success.

I have tried looking up on various forums but none of the suggestions has helped so far. Any suggestion or help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Just a guess but if it works for WinXP users and not for vista or Win7 users it's because of the user permissions but this should give a exception in your application. Are you swallowing the exception?