The Settings page of the Project Designer allows you to specify the project's application settings. Application settings allow you to store and retrieve property settings and other information for your application dynamically, and maintain individual application and user preferences on the client computer.
To access the Settings page, right-click on a project node in Solution Explorer, then select Properties. When the Project Designer appears, click the Settings tab.
The following controls are located at the header bar at the top of the Settings page.
Restores user scoped settings that the application uses at run time (or during debugging) to their default values as defined at design time. The data is restored by removing runtime-generated, application-specific files from disk (not from project data).
For Visual RPG projects, navigates to the code in the Settings.vr file.
The settings table is used to configure the application settings.
Enter the name of the application setting in this field.
Use the drop-down list to select a type for the setting. The most commonly used types appear in the drop-down list You can select another type by selecting Browse at the end of the list, and choosing a type from the Select a Type Dialog Box. Notice that after you have selected a type from this dialog box, that type is added to the common types in the drop-down list (for the current solution only).
The Scope can be Application or User.
Application-scoped settings (such as connection strings) are associated with the application; users cannot change them at run time.
User-scoped settings (such as system fonts) are intended for user preferences; users can change them at run time.
The data or value associated with the application setting.