configuration file

[Maileen]

Hi,

I would like to use a configuration file for my application.
usually i use an *.ini file for that which is from my point of view
easier for multi distribution site.
this configuration file can be set up in some way that after user can
redistribute it without any trouble.

From my point of view it's better than any registry value.
Because how to export very easily all keys and value from 1 PC to
another one ?

Anyway...does anyone have a better idea than using an *.ini file ?
i need to have something really easy to export / import for next
installation of my application on different places.

thanks a lot,
Maileen

 

[One Handed Man \( OHM - Terry Burns \)]

Yes, use the app.config file ( XML ), then you can use the
System.Configuration namespace to read your settings

Regards - OHM

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I would like to use a configuration file for my application.
usually i use an *.ini file for that which is from my point of view
easier for multi distribution site.
this configuration file can be set up in some way that after user can
redistribute it without any trouble.

From my point of view it's better than any registry value.
Because how to export very easily all keys and value from 1 PC to
another one ?

Anyway...does anyone have a better idea than using an *.ini file ?
i need to have something really easy to export / import for next
installation of my application on different places.

If you are talking about configuration settings, then use an "App.config"
file.

If you are talking about user preferences:

Storing and loading user preferences
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=userpreferences>

 

[scorpion53061]

Hi Maileen,

Use XML for such settings.

http://www.kjmsolutions.com/xmlsettings.htm

 

[Larry Serflaten]

If you are talking about user preferences:

Storing and loading user preferences
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=userpreferences>

Unfortunately, none of them (that I saw) include examples of
saving an Image....

Bummer!
LFS

 

[scorpion53061]

Larry,

What is it you seek to accomplish with the image?

 

[Richard L Rosenheim]

You can't save binary data directly to a XML file. But, you can convert the
image to a Base64 string and save the resulting string to the XML file.

 

[Guest]

Maileen, the easiest way that I have found (it came from someone on this
newsgroup) was to create a class using various properties to save all your
settings and user preferences and whatever else. When theh program exits,
serialize the class and save it to a file. When the application starts, read
the file and deserialize it back into the Class. You then have all your
settings and user preferences available thru the class properties.