which is better : use of registery in order to store setting or use of Settings class

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which is better : use of registery in order to store setting or use of Settings class and where is useful use of registery ?
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Posted 28-Feb-11 2:34am

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RaviRanjanKr 28-Feb-11 22:45pm

Nice Question

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Solution 1

Settings file would be better if those settings belong to one application.

Registry is better option when a setting is common to multiple application.

Example, GAC makes use of registry to make an assembly available globally.

Posted 28-Feb-11 2:41am

Albin Abel

Updated 28-Feb-11 3:08am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Feb-11 22:28pm

Even for multiple applications Registry is not recommended by Microsoft anymore.
(With GAC, the application still does not modify Registry.)
Please see my Answer.
--SA

Solution 4

I want to add more general Answer.

Microsoft is going away from using Registry in applications. The recommended practice is using some special directories for storing of data files. One should use System.Environment.GetFolderPath method to find out the directory used for different purposes. Typically, you should use directory returned by
System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData) for storing application-related data files per user account.

See enumeration type System.SpecialFolder for other special folders and their uses.

—SA

Posted 28-Feb-11 16:25pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 28-Feb-11 18:12pm

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Solution 2

There is a very good discussion at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/architecturegeneral/thread/67073dd8-282b-4a24-85c8-4a1ef3f80a2e[^].

Hope this helps.
All the best.

Posted 28-Feb-11 3:09am

Pravin Patil, Mumbai

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-28T03:16:00

Solution 3

Always avoid using the registry if at all possible.

Posted 28-Feb-11 3:16am

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fjdiewornncalwe 28-Feb-11 9:27am

Agreed. +5. The registry should be considered legacy technology when writing new software packages. The latest approach is to use the .config files for this purpose. That being said, there are situations where using the registry would still be considered valid, but the only cases of that which I could justify would be if I was working with older technologies that have been designed to work with the registry. (i.e. MFC)

#realJSOP 28-Feb-11 9:36am

Even when I was doing MFC programming, I avoided using the registry (to store things) like the plague. Retrieving info from it wasn't a problem though, andwas sometimes necessary.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Feb-11 11:59am

And even avoid if it is impossible... my 5.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-Feb-11 22:28pm

Please see my generalized answer.
--SA