app.config runtime section for apps

[kerrywales]

From v4 with vs 2008 to provide a distributed version of the application I provide the needed DLL's in the same folder of the app and I have the following lines in the app.config

This first one is fine and the version number is changed with every update

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However I had the need to add the following section

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which I have never changed and the distributed app seems happy and I don't need to install the client files from the Devart .exe.

But Devart has been updated many times since the code was first written and VS2010 now shows Devart.Data to be of version
5.0.327.0

I must have the runtime section in the app.config or the app wont run. But the config has, in my eyes, a wrong version number. Yet it happily works.

My questions are:
Why so I need the section if it is ignored?
Should I be matching the upper version limit with the version number shown in the VS properties box for Devart.Data?

Thanks.

[Shalex]

Why so I need the section if it is ignored?

It is ignored because your redirection works only for the 0.0.0.0-5.0.105.0 versions of Devart.Data.dll. So there is no redirection for Devart.Data.dll v 5.0.327.

Should I be matching the upper version limit with the version number shown in the VS properties box for Devart.Data?

It depends on the range of versions you are going to cover using the oldVersion attribute.

Please refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7wd6ex19.aspx.