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saving settings Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on ASPFriends.com 'winforms-cs' list. Responses highlighted in red are from those people who are likely to be able to contribute good, authoratitive information to this discussion. They include Microsoft employees, MVP's and others who IMHO contribute well to these kinds of discussions. dave wanta (VIP) hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave Reply to this message...        Andy Smith IMO, the easiest way is to just write a Preferences object that can be serialized. __ Andy Smith Chief Code Monkey -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:03 PM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        Chris Longo ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/cpguide/html/cpconintroducingxmlserializatio n.htm this should help -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:03 PM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        Glavich, Paul C An .XML config file is the standard way to go, and there are many ways to save elements to XML files. Because its only a prefs file, choose whichever method is easiest for you. You could then easily read the settings using the "ConfigurationSettings.AppConfig" properties or "ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig" method to easily access your applocations config file. Its also standard practice to name your XML file as {your_exe_filename}.config. Although, a serializable preferences object would also be a nice way of doing things, probably a bit more work though. * Paul Glavich Professional Web Services Email: <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Click here to reveal e-mail address (Currently no fixed phone or street address) -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 5:03 AM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        dave wanta (VIP) yes... i've used that technique before.. forgot how easy it was. However, one of the values that I need to save is formatted HTML from a RichTextBox, and for some reason when I fill the RRB with an html document, the XmlSerializer doesn't write it out... It doesn't cause any error, it just never creates the file. I step through the code, and nothing breaks. Anyone seen this? thanks, dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Longo To: winforms-cs Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings ms-help://MS.VSCC/MS.MSDNVS/cpguide/html/cpconintroducingxmlserialization.htm this should help -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:03 PM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        dave wanta (VIP) Messageyes... except the <exe>.config file won't work for this situation... i need to allow for different profiles of seetings.. plus one text box actually contains file contents.. which i'm having trouble serializing out... ----- Original Message ----- From: Glavich, Paul C To: winforms-cs Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings An .XML config file is the standard way to go, and there are many ways to save elements to XML files. Because its only a prefs file, choose whichever method is easiest for you. You could then easily read the settings using the "ConfigurationSettings.AppConfig" properties or "ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig" method to easily access your applocations config file. Its also standard practice to name your XML file as {your_exe_filename}.config. Although, a serializable preferences object would also be a nice way of doing things, probably a bit more work though. a Paul Glavich Professional Web Services Email: Click here to reveal e-mail address (Currently no fixed phone or street address) -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 5:03 AM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        Andy Smith I suggest you look at IsolatedStorage for the location to put it. __ Andy Smith Chief Code Monkey -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:57 PM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings yes... except the <exe>.config file won't work for this situation... i need to allow for different profiles of seetings.. plus one text box actually contains file contents.. which i'm having trouble serializing out... ----- Original Message ----- From: Glavich, <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Paul C To: winforms-cs <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings An .XML config file is the standard way to go, and there are many ways to save elements to XML files. Because its only a prefs file, choose whichever method is easiest for you. You could then easily read the settings using the "ConfigurationSettings.AppConfig" properties or "ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig" method to easily access your applocations config file. Its also standard practice to name your XML file as {your_exe_filename}.config. Although, a serializable preferences object would also be a nice way of doing things, probably a bit more work though. * Paul Glavich Professional Web Services Email: <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Click here to reveal e-mail address (Currently no fixed phone or street address) -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 5:03 AM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? Thanks, dave | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT | [winforms-cs] member Click here to reveal e-mail address = YOUR ID | http://www.asplists.com/asplists/winforms-cs.asp = JOIN/QUIT Reply to this message...        Glavich, Paul C Bummer. How about a dataset as the underlying datastorage, using multiple tables with the same structure, perhaps just name them according to the user id or some other unique value and as datasets can serialise themselves, you just need to find the correct location to do so. Might be a bit too much overhead though. * Paul Glavich Professional Web Services Email: <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Click here to reveal e-mail address (Currently no fixed phone or street address) -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 8:57 AM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings yes... except the <exe>.config file won't work for this situation... i need to allow for different profiles of seetings.. plus one text box actually contains file contents.. which i'm having trouble serializing out... ----- Original Message ----- From: Glavich, Paul <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> C To: winforms-cs <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: [winforms-cs] RE: saving settings An .XML config file is the standard way to go, and there are many ways to save elements to XML files. Because its only a prefs file, choose whichever method is easiest for you. You could then easily read the settings using the "ConfigurationSettings.AppConfig" properties or "ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig" method to easily access your applocations config file. Its also standard practice to name your XML file as {your_exe_filename}.config. Although, a serializable preferences object would also be a nice way of doing things, probably a bit more work though. * Paul Glavich Professional Web Services Email: <mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address> Click here to reveal e-mail address (Currently no fixed phone or street address) -----Original Message----- From: dave wanta [mailto:Click here to reveal e-mail address] Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2002 5:03 AM To: winforms-cs Subject: [winforms-cs] saving settings hi all, I have a winform application that will allow the user to save their settings. The settings are basically 10 - 15 different textboxes on a form. This will allow them to enter different default settings and create different profiles. What is the best way to save these settings? I'm assuming a xml .config file but what is the quickest way of reading\writing xml files out? Every xml example i've done gets rather lengthy. Does anyone have any quick and easy examples for reading\writing xml files? 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