Custom basic settings: Create the settings contract

The next step is to create the settings contract. It is a class implementing ISettingsDataContract and provides the functionality to save settings and load the default value of the settings.

To do this, perform the following:

  1. Create a class and name it MyCustomSettingsContract.cs
  2. Inside paste the following code:

NOTE: The contract has property RandomVariable that persists in the configuration file and saves the value in method SaveDefaults(). For that purpose, you use the API for working with configuration files.

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