Hi Stuart,

>I have the location of the database stored in the app.config file of my application. Once its deployed the user will have to map a network drive and then make sure the app.config is the same. I am using CllickOnce which buries the application deep in subfolders of the document and settings folder so there is no chance of anybody being able to find the app.config file to change it. What is the easiest and quickest way around this problem?

well, there IS actually a chance of somebody to find that folder, but it definitely takes some digging. For instance, one of the clickonce-deployed apps I have here is located under a folder that looks like this:

C:\docume~1\claudio\locals~1\Apps\2.0\M63O9MCG.XWN\ZGYKZWMA.ABD\wiki..tion_57bdbd698d9658ad_0002.0001_2997f894a15f262e

Anyways, what we do is to just create a UI within the application to edit those settings. Read the setting, put it on a textbox or whatever, let the user change it, and then save the settings, like so:

// read setting...
this.TextBox.Text = YourProject.Properties.Settings.Default.SomeSetting

// update setting...
YourProject.Properties.Settings.Default.SomeSetting = this.TextBox.Text;

// Save settings to disk
YourProject.Properties.Settings.Default.Save();

HTH