Saving information for the next startup!

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I want my program to save some information to use them on the next startup of the program ...
is there any other way better than writing on a text file ???
and if there isn't, can you tell me how to protect this text file and prevent other people from seeing or editing or removing it?

waiting for your suggestions

thanks,

Posted 17-Sep-11 4:16am

George_Rasmi

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Solution 1

If you would like to save your settings for your program , you can create a SERIALIZABLE object and dump it to a file .

Posted 17-Sep-11 4:32am

Radu Slavila

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Arun Kumar K S · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-17T04:54:00

Solution 2

Let me suggest some methods to save your application settings for next startup

1) The most common method for doing this is to save your settings using

Properties.Settings

Its very easy to use
Check this links for settings in .Net
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(v=vs.80).aspx[^]
http://www.dotnetperls.com/settings-visual-studio[^]

2)Or save your information to the registry (Create one key in registry and save your information there)

Posted 17-Sep-11 4:54am

Arun Kumar K S

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George_Rasmi 17-Sep-11 13:30pm

I tried your method and it worked perfectly in the project thanks :)
I need one more thing :
according to this method, how to store a String array ???
in other words, I need to store a string array in the program so it can retrieve it every time the program starts...
any suggestions???

Arun Kumar K S 17-Sep-11 21:56pm

use system.collections.specialized.stringcollection in settings data type

Arun Kumar K S 17-Sep-11 22:06pm

// Create and initializes a new StringCollection.
StringCollection myCol = new StringCollection();

// Add a range of elements from an array to the end of the StringCollection.
String[] myArr = new String[] { "RED", "orange", "yellow", "RED", "green", "blue", "RED", "indigo", "violet", "RED" };

myCol.AddRange(myArr);
Properties.Settings.Default.MySettings = myCol;
Properties.Settings.Default.Save();