Keeping program settings

[trisolve]

I am writing a complex database program with lots of user customizable settings. Most of them are menus. What is the best way to save the settings? File/Registry or other? Please if you can give me an code example that would be great. Thanks!

 

trisolve

[samsmithnz]

It depends on how many 'lots' is. The registry can be expensive to access for lots of items, so its probably best to use your database to hold these menus.

[iebidan]

if you don't want to use the database you can try using some XML to hold these settings and everytime the app starts you can load the settings stored in the XML file

[hog]

I was an avid user of the registry until I got my head around xml. Now I save all app settings in xml files

[RonQ]

This could help you:

http://searchvb.techtarget.com/vsnetATEAnswers/0,293820,sid8_gci831710_tax293474,00.html

 

and it has a link to MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchCreateYourOwnDynamicPropertiesPreservePropertySettingsInVisualBasicNET.asp

 

This, they say, "is the proper way to save configuration settings in the .NET environment".

 

Bye,

Ronq.