>is there any way to ensure (short of adding code to
>the app) that the old preferences will be retained? E.G., by leaving the
>app prefs structure the same but only ADDING new items at the end?

That's what we've done thru 3-4 versions of our application and it seems to
work fine. When we add stuff we just read and write the new, larger size
structure.

>Or are
>the old prefs automatically deleted if a call to GetPrefs determines that
>the size of the call doesn't correspond to the size of the stored prefs?

I've never seem that happen, but I wouldn't swear it's not possible. :-)

Regards,
Steve Mann

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