I have multiple DLL projects referenced from an Application project in my solution in Visual Studio 2005.
I have settings in app.config files stored in each dll.
How do you cascade the settings from the DLL projects to the application project?
Does it need to be done manually?
What is the intended Microsoft way of handling configurable DLL settings?
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app.config is mainly the application's configuration. It does not stand on its own (excluding some configuration data that is stored in app.config for design-time development things like connection strings and such).
Eventually when you run your application, be it a web application or a windows application (WinForms, Windows Service, etc) it can user either a web.config or an app.config respectively.
I am not aware of a Microsoft tool that can do what you want, but there is a tool called XmlConfigMerge which is a nice tool (with source code) that can merge configuration files.
This might help you during the production of your application or during deployment.
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