Custom Type in Application Settings and Serialisation

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Good Evening,

Hope some of you fine experts can assist me on this, i have an application that i need to save the settings in application settings which is fine however i need them to be exposed in the settings/config file on build.

No issues with normal settings however for each setting i need it to have 3 values, which are 'DDERow','DDECol' and 'DDELength'. there will be about 12 different settings and i dont want to have 12 * 3 settings.

i have been looking at adding custom types to the application settings but struggling to get this achieved by adding a custom type to the property.

Imports System.Configuration

<SettingsSerializeAs(Configuration.SettingsSerializeAs.Xml)> _
Public Class DDESetting
    'BackBones
    Private _SettingDDERow As Integer
    Private _SettingDDECol As Integer
    Private _SettingDDELength As Integer

    Sub New()
    End Sub

    Public Property DDERow As Integer
        Get
            Return _SettingDDERow
        End Get
        Set(value As Integer)
            _SettingDDERow = value
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Property DDECol As Integer
        Get
            Return _SettingDDECol
        End Get
        Set(value As Integer)
            _SettingDDECol = value
        End Set
    End Property
    Public Property DDELength As Integer
        Get
            Return _SettingDDELength
        End Get
        Set(value As Integer)
            _SettingDDELength = value
        End Set
    End Property
    
End Class

i can now select this in my main application as a setting but it only shows a textbox to put a single value you in, how can i get it so i can add all 3 settings in on the settings page and then serialise it in the config file.

[EDIT]

Expected output:

< settingname>
    <DDERow>
    <DDECol>
    <DDELength>
</settingname>

and i want to be able to access it via the normal My.Settings namespace so:

My.Settings.SettingName.DDERow
My.Settings.SettingName.DDECol
My.Settings.SettingName.DDELength

[/EDIT]

Appreciate any help you can give.

I am using VS2010