This is a quickstart on a new VS2005 feature, Application Property Settings. It's one of the features that is so simple and useful that you wonder why no one thought of it before. But hey, as a product gets better--and smarter--it's supposed to get simpler, right?
You'll need a Properties subfolder in your project with a Settings.settings file, which your project doesn't have by default. To get your bad self Property Settings enabled, right-click on the Project in Solution Explorer and select "Properties" from the popup window. A blank content window appears with a link "...click here to create a default settings file." (Shown in first pic below.)
Now you can enter your property settings, and not just ConnectionStrings or URLs! To reference the property for, say, a connection string, the format would be
string _Connection = YourApplication.Properties.Settings.Default.YourConnectionName;
