C# VS 2010 Express not creating users.config file

I'm writing my first ever C# app using the examples that come from Microsoft's Lync SDK as my template. Let's just say it's been fun.

I've created some settings in the D开发者_如何学Cesigner (scope=user), and can access these programatically with:

if (Properties.Settings.Default.EnableRemoteControl == true)

but I have 2 problems:

1) the app isn't creating the user.config file. Clearly I'm missing some vital step here!

2) I can't bind the booleans in the user settings to the check-boxes in the WPF form. try as I might, none of the binding examples on the web work for me.

Does anyone have any pointers they'd care to share??