为什么.net配置设置被编译成程序集？

I have been trying to read up on how to do configuration properly in .net and have run into something that I find a bit odd and that is that configuration settings are compiled into assemblies through the Settings class. Removing the app.config and running the application does not result in configuration errors as I was expecting but rather now I have no way of replacing the configuration values. I have been trying to read up on how to do conf