DefaultSettingValueAttribute Class

Important
DefaultSettingValueAttribute can only be applied to individual settings properties; it is invalid to apply this attribute to an entire application settings class.

Different settings providers may have different requirements or limitations on the use of the DefaultSettingValueAttribute. For example, the LocalFileSettingsProvider does not require this attribute, and will override any value provided by this attribute if there are any values—default or user-modified— already present in the data store.

DefaultSettingValueAttribute requires that the default value can be represented as a string. As a result, settings using XML serialization cannot have a default value specified by means of this attribute. Some providers may choose to support multiple serialization schemes which can be specified at compile time using the SettingsSerializeAsAttribute.

Caution
The default values specified by this attribute are stored as plain text in the resultant compiled .exe or .dll file. Therefore these default values are inherently insecure.

The following code example demonstrates the use of the DefaultSettingValueAttribute applied to three of the four properties of the FormSettings wrapper class, which is derived from the ApplicationSettingsBase class. This class is used to persist the location, size, background color, and text of form. The first three of these form properties have default values associated with them.

The full code example is listed in the ApplicationSettingsBase class overview.

//Application settings wrapper class 
sealed class FormSettings : ApplicationSettingsBase
{
    [UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
    public String FormText
    {
        get { return (String)this["FormText"]; }
        set { this["FormText"] = value; }
    }

    [UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
    [DefaultSettingValueAttribute("0, 0")]
    public Point FormLocation
    {
        get { return (Point)(this["FormLocation"]); }
        set { this["FormLocation"] = value; }
    }

    [UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
    [DefaultSettingValueAttribute("225, 200")]
    public Size FormSize
    {
        get { return (Size)this["FormSize"]; }
        set { this["FormSize"] = value; }
    }


    [UserScopedSettingAttribute()]
    [DefaultSettingValueAttribute("LightGray")]
    public Color FormBackColor
    {
        get { return (Color)this["FormBackColor"]; }
        set { this["FormBackColor"] = value; }
    }

}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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