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RE: path is not of a legal form for FileSystemWatcher if I get path fr

Family Tree Mike
1/7/2008 8:42:03 AM

Well, I think that getting a blank in the event log is telling you there is
something wrong with the setting that you are loading. A blank value would
give you an illegal form error for the path on the file system watcher.

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Re: path is not of a legal form for FileSystemWatcher if I get path fr

pantagruel
1/8/2008 1:24:34 AM

Yeah, I suppose there's something wrong as well. But I can't really
see what that is. The setting name is the same as the value I am
passing, certainly looks like it above. I've tried two different path
values.
I've tried with both ConfigurationManager.AppSettings and
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings,

So the question is why would this as my app settings:

<userSettings>
<WindowsService2.Properties.Settings>
<setting name="RenderingQ" serializeAs="String">
<value>C:\RenditionServerQ\InjectorQ\OnDemandQ</value>
</setting>
</WindowsService2.Properties.Settings>
</userSettings>

give a blank value for this

ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RenderingQ"]

On Jan 7, 5:42 pm, Family Tree Mike
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Re: path is not of a legal form for FileSystemWatcher if I get pat

Family Tree Mike
1/8/2008 3:39:00 AM

Are you getting any values from your settings that are valid?

If not, try something like the following and see if your code is having
trouble finding the config file.

string[] keys = appSettings.AllKeys;

Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Application appSettings:");

// Loop to get key/value pairs.
for (int i = 0; i < appSettings.Count; i++)

Console.WriteLine("#{0} Name: {1} Value: {2}",
i, keys[i], appSettings[i]);

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