Storing user settings file

[Ron L]

I have an application we are building that will be used by a number of
different users on shared PCs. I want to be able to store a number of user
settings in a location that is unique for each user, so that one user's
settings do not affect another. Is there a "standard" location to store
these files? How about a "standard" location to store a file of default
settings if the user hasn't run the application yet?

TIA
Ron L

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I have an application we are building that will be used by a number of
different users on shared PCs. I want to be able to store a number of user
settings in a location that is unique for each user, so that one user's
settings do not affect another. Is there a "standard" location to store
these files? How about a "standard" location to store a file of default
settings if the user hasn't run the application yet?

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[Ron L]

Herfried
Thank you for the response. I assume that this will get the location
for an individual user, do you know how to get one for a set of defaults, or
should those simply be stored in the same directory as the application?

TIA
Ron L

 

[Lebesgue]

You may want to store the settings in registry, use

System.Windows.Forms.Application.CommonAppDataRegistry to store application
specific settings (shared among all users)
and System.Windows.Forms.Application.UserAppDataRegistry for user-specific
settings

 

[Guest]

Hi
try to use isolated storage available in .net that is unique for every user.
other good thing is that it acts like a harddisk space and you can even store
files in that.

 

[Ron L]

Pankaj

Thank you for the response. I am not sure what you mean by "isolated
storage", can you elaborate on this, please?

Ron L

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I am not sure what you mean by "isolated storage", can you elaborate on
this, please?

..NET Framework Class Library -- 'System.IO.IsolatedStorage' Namespace
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemioisolatedstorage.asp>

 

[Ron L]

Herfried

Thank you, I will take a look at that link.

Ron L