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Things like maintenance, website background, website title, favicon etc., where would it be best to store them? It would be single array of items. Do I just write it in flat CSV file, flat XML file, or use database for it (sounds pretty stupid to create single-row-table)? (*sorry for mess …

I have used several methods to save a program's settings in the past. * System Registry * INI files (Encrypted\Plain) * XML file as a resource or external file * XML app.config etc. I'm wondering either: 1. What's your preferred method for saving your program's settings? 2. Is there a …

Hello Members of DaniWeb, I have run into an issue and need help solving it. I know how to go about adding items to My.Settings and I have already created the Specialized String Collection to My.Settings called List but I am having some trouble getting the items and the subitems …

Guys how do I save settings of a form like its background color, fonstyle, sontsize etc. I cannot save them as string or text into my access database.

Hey everyone, Usually when I create a Java application I will use the built-in Preferences class to save user preferences. I believe this saves user information to the registry on Windows, and to other locations on Linux / Mac OS X. When I need to store a serialised object, I'm …

Hello, I was wondering if there is any way, I can have my Application save its settings upon exit or a save button to save to maybe a CFG File? such as textbox.text info, Checkbox.checked info, etc... If there is could you please help?

I'm sorry if I'm just missing something here or perhaps it's glaringly obvious to everyone but me... I've been ALL over this site trying to find some way to 'customize' which forums appear within the "My Favorite Forums" (purple bar at the footer of DaniWeb). IMHO it should be the …

Basically I've got a text editor which revolves around a jTextArea. There are some settings (e.g. whether line wrap is enabled) that I'd like to save to a file when the application closes, and then load up again when it runs next. I've spent a few hours trying to get …

Hello world, I would be grateful if you helped me. I've built a text editing application and I would like it to load values/user settings from the Windows Registry. Here's my code but it is somehow wrong (I believe it whatsoever has to do with wrong syntax but it could …

I have a ContextMenu with MenuItems in it with their CheckOnClick property set to true. And I want to save the Checked state of each MenuItem in the user.config file. So what I did is bind the Checked property of the MenuItem to an application settings I created. But when …