Config/INI Files

[Kevin Moore]

Hi,

I am starting to write a .Net CF app that will allow our customers to access
our db. Our customers will be connected to their LAN via a wireless card in
the PocketPC and then use our app to scan some barcodes.

I am trying to store the db connection information on the pocketpc but I
can't figure out how to write to a config or INI file. Can anyone offer any
ideas? Does this information normally get stored in some type of a config or
INI file.

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

You'd have to write the code to write and parse the file yourself. You
could store it in the registry...

Paul T.

 

[Ali Mazaheri, MCAD]

You can store it in a XML file and leverage XMLtextreader for reading the
XML.

 

[Kevin Moore]

Paul,

Unfortunately it doesn't appear that the Microsoft.VisualBasic library works
in .Net CF. So I cannot use the registry. I'll have to look into something
else.

Kevin

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

If you use OpenNETCF, you'll have a nice registry library.

www.opennetcf.org

Paul T.

 

[Mark Erikson]

As Paul said, storing it in a file you can parse yourself is one
option. As far as your original request goes, there's a very nice
100% C# INI file implementation at
http://www.codeguru.com/cs_network/FileReader.html . If you use it,
be sure to check the comments for the "remove key" functions.

Mark Erikson