ApplicationSettings and Windows Forms

Question

I learned the technique described in this article

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/29130/Windows-Forms-Creating-and-Persisting-Custom-User

The article's title is "Windows Forms - Creating and Persisting Custom User Settings in C#". Also ApplicationSettingsBase class description on MSDN says

Acts as a base class for deriving concrete wrapper classes to implement the application settings feature in Window Forms applications.

What does this technique have to do with Windows Forms if it perfectly works (seemingly) without any WinForms dependency in a simple console application?

Answer 1

The only reason that I can see is that the WinForms Form designer allows you to address the settings immediately:

Storing the Form's location and text in the settings.

This is not mentioned in the tutorial you are referring to and a quite unknown feature.