Looking at your recommended XML solution... I'm just curious. Do you hack together your own XML reader and writer based on the XMLReader/Writer classes, or is there a class that can be used to retrieve data via something akin to query strings (a la the serialization mechanism) already present in .Net somewhere?
Thanks, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of franklin gray Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] .Config vs .INI vs Registry Question I might be telling you something you already know. If you have an exe with say 10 dlls, you can create a config file and use the settings in the config file for all 11 projects (the exe and dlls). You can't, however, create two exes and have both use the same config file. Plus, you can't write to the config file at run time easily. So, with that said, if you need to share data between two apps or write to it at runtime, then I like the idea of creating your own XML file and reading from that. I was going to do that for user preferences until we decided that the preferences should be kept by login Id and not machine. So if a user logged in on another machine, we wanted the user to still have the same preferences, which meant we had to store that in the DB. Things such as URLs and DB connections and so on that only change at install times or a system change, then I use the config file. I like it so much better then the registry because it's easy for me to change when testing. Ini files are OK, but I think XML files gives us a much better format to store the data. -----Original Message----- From: David Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] .Config vs .INI vs Registry Question I am currently spec'ing out a distributed application (by which in this case I mean that it requires many different assemblies) and was looking for the "correct" method of building and accessing external configuration data. If I was working in VB6 like I used to I would use either an .INI file (if the pieces would reside on different boxes) or the Registry (if they all reside on one box.) In .NET the technology is to use .config files for external configuration. The problem that I am having is: How do I create and use a .config file across assemblies, or am I going down the wrong path altogether? David Williams Senior Developer Strohl Systems You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
