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James Litewski
James Litewski

Reputation: 449

A way to store information

I'm making a Console Application using Visual Studio, the coding is being written in (C#). The program is going to be a basic Command Prompt game.

So, I'm trying to find a way to store information.. I'm fairly new to coding in general, so I don't know what type of file I will need to make. I just want a way to store things like names, and character levels, so essentially strings and integers.

Although, I don't want to use a ".txt" file or something like that. I'm really looking for something embed into the program.

Thanks for taking the time to read my question; I'm happy to answer any further questions you may have, so that I can achieve what I'm working toward.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 159

Answers (6)

Jonas Elfström
Jonas Elfström

Reputation: 31428

Totally missed Florians answer but I post this anyway since you might learn a few things from it even though it's essentially the same answer.

[Serializable]
public class Player
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Level { get; set; }
    public Weapon Weapon { get; set; }
}

[Serializable]
public class Weapon
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int MaxDamage { get; set; }
    public int Range { get; set; }
    public WeaponClass Class { get; set; }

    public enum WeaponClass { Sword, Club, Bow }
}

and then you can use these like this

var filename = @"c:\temp\player.xml";

var sword = new Weapon { Name = "Dáinsleif", MaxDamage = 42, Range = 1, Class = Weapon.WeaponClass.Sword };
var player = new Player { Name = "Fafhrd", Level = 19, Weapon = sword };

var ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Player));

var file = File.OpenWrite(filename);
ser.Serialize(file, player);
file.Close();

player = null;

file = File.OpenRead(filename);
player = (Player)ser.Deserialize(file);
file.Close();

The XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Player xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Name>Fafhrd</Name>
  <Level>19</Level>
  <Weapon>
    <Name>Dáinsleif</Name>
    <MaxDamage>42</MaxDamage>
    <Range>1</Range>
    <Class>Sword</Class>
  </Weapon>
</Player>

Upvotes: 1

Florian Greinacher
Florian Greinacher

Reputation: 14786

An easy and straightforward way would be to create a serializable class that stores all relevant data. This class can than be easily written to and read from e.g. a Xml file.

Sample code:

[Serializable]
public class GameData
{
    public int Highscore;

    /* Plus any other data you want to store */
}

public class Game
{
    private const string gameDataLocation = "C:\\GameData.xml";
    private GameData gameData;

    /* Your game methods */

    private void StoreData()
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(GameData));
        StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(gameDataLocation);
        serializer.Serialize(writer, gameData);
        writer.Close();
    }

    private void LoadData()
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(GameData));
        FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(gameDataLocation, FileMode.Open); 
        gameData = (GameData)serializer.Deserialize(fileStream);
        fileStream.Close();
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

Marginean Vlad
Marginean Vlad

Reputation: 329

You could use a Sqlite database for this purpose.There you can also store binary serialized objects and it is pretty easy to work with it.

Sqlite usage in c# example

Sqlite documentation

Upvotes: 1

Ilya Smagin
Ilya Smagin

Reputation: 6152

If you plan to contain more than 1 player data, i'd recommend to use some well-structured storage, such as XML. Google thatm google LINQ to XML.

But! Better start with txt, get familiar with C#, classes, syntax, etc. Then learn to use functionality, essentially based on this. This will be hard to dive into abstractions based on somewhat you are not familiar with/

Upvotes: 1

Tony Kh
Tony Kh

Reputation: 1572

If you want to store game settings you may use app.config and autogenerated Settings class. If you want to store best gamers names or something, it is reasonable to think about your own format

Upvotes: 1

Sasha Reminnyi
Sasha Reminnyi

Reputation: 3522

I think you first should think more deeply about what you want. txt is past, use xml for separate levels, for characters. Also runtime serialization (storing objects in binary format) might help

Upvotes: 1

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