Howdy,
You guys may both be interested in this article-
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/06/24.html
In short, however, Windows doesn't provide much in the line of a clear
place to store, or management utility to handle, credentials.
The registry should be fine, though I personally like to see
applications keep their stuff in less volatile waters, such as a file in
%userprofile%\Application Data\<your app or a parent folder for a group
of your apps>\<relevant files and/or folders> . To me, this is a much
better way to do it, allowing you to maintain your application's data in
any format you see fit, regardless of what Windows is doing with the
registry. The userprofile environment variable, IIRC, exists and is used
within Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2K/XP/2k3, so it's pretty reliable for the
platform.
Just my two cents.
Good luck,
Fargo
Arnaud Nicolet wrote:
Le 26 janv. 07 à 19:25 Soir, Sam DeVore a écrit:
So,
I am about to start working on getting an existing application
ready for a windows build and I am a windows neophyte. Currently the
application stores connection information in the users Keychain
(using the keychain objects) is there an analog for this in the
widows world or should I use my own encrypted datastore for windows.
I'm also a non-experimented Win32 guy, but would it not be logical to
use the Registry (with encrypted values)?
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