app.config being ignored?

I have read several posts where users were having this same issue. When compiled, the .exe is unable to load any resources from app.config. This is occurring even when the app.config is copied to the output directory.

Specifically, I'm having an issue with a web service client being unable to determine the proper endpoint configuration, even if I statically compile it in like this:

this.ws = new MyServicePortTypeClient("MyServicePort", "http://mysite.com/customer_portal/ws.php");

The exception thrown states "System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find default endpoint element that references contract 'MyWebService.MyServicePortType' in the ServiceModel client configuration section. This might be because no configuration file was found for your application, or because no endpoint element matching this contract could be found in the client element."

I'm at a loss so any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Here's the MyService.exe.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
    </configSections>
    <system.serviceModel>
        <bindings>
            <basicHttpBinding>
                <binding name="MyServiceBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
                    openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
                    allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                    maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
                    messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
                    useDefaultWebProxy="true">
                    <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                        maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                    <security mode="None">
                        <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
                            realm="" />
                        <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
                    </security>
                </binding>
            </basicHttpBinding>
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        <client>
            <endpoint address="http://mysite.com/customer_portal/ws.php"
                binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="MyServiceBinding"
                contract="MyWebService.MyServicePortType" name="MyServicePort" />
        </client>
    </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

EXE is taking the settings from FileName.exe.config, not from App.config

The FileName.exe.config should be auto generated when compiling the code, and placed alongside the EXE itself.

Check the folder where you have the EXE.. do you see FileName.exe.config in there?

(Posted as answer due to length and formatting)

Well, I figured it out with the help from the information provided by everyone.

The issue is that installutil.exe is trying to use its own config, instead of the one created by the service. In this case, It's trying to load C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0...\InstallUtil.config.

Now that I've figured that out, I can work with it and get it to work correctly.

Thanks, y'all!