[Mono-devel-list] saving preferences

A Rafael D Teixeira rafaelteixeirabr at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 1 12:57:10 EST 2004


>From: "Alvaro A. Ramirez" <alramire at ecs.syr.edu>
>
>i'm currently writing an application which will be used on both win32
>and linux. i'm curious as to how to save user preferences. so far i am
>doing it to an xml file

OK to save user preferences in xml files, or if it gets too big you can use 
binary serialization.

>, but where should i save this?

Use the IsolatedStorage classes, this gives you a per-user/per-program 
directory and it works in both implementations/platforms.

>i could use the home directory, but what about win32? registry?

Don't use the registry, it's more a source of problems than one of 
solutions.

IsolatedStorage currently maps to a subdirectory of home in Linux and a 
subdirectory of Documents And Settings\<user> in windows, and takes care of 
the whole issue at a higher-level of abstraction.

>do i really need two different implementations?

As I said: No.

>regards,
>
>alvaro

Best Regards,

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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