Cup o' CAD.NET

In Winforms projects, it is quite common to use app.config. For instance, to store settings  and application parameters etc. When programming AutoCad extensions, you’ll run into problems: trying to address the default app.config file leads you to the app.config of the running process, being AutoCad. AutoCad has provided a solution for this (although it would be possible to do this yourself): they created an acad.exe.config.

Placing your application settings in acad.exe.config lets frameworks like Unity, Enterprise library and your own application to run correctly after all. This solution is not perfect, and still causes lots of problems with Unity, but there must be workarounds. This, again, might be interesting for a more extensive blog post on the subject. Just let me know if this is desired…