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Chinmoy
Chinmoy

Reputation: 1754

How to go about creating a configuration file for my application in .NET

I am working on a software and want to create a configuration file for my application to store configurations that will be used at runtime. I have seen some software use a config.xml file to achieve this. The configuration file I want to use will have:

  1. Cache folder location
  2. Color scheme
  3. Option to toggle caching

How to go about this? I am working with WPF.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1150

Answers (4)

Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 78890

In Visual Studio, add an "app.config" to your project. When you build your application, this will create an AppName.exe.config file, where AppName is the name of your executable. This is an XML config file that can contain your settings.

Upvotes: 8

code4life
code4life

Reputation: 15794

If theses options are user-specific, don't use app.config - that's for global application settings and you will clobber other users' settings. I'm bringing this point up because you mentioned caching options in your question, and in some applications, the choice to cache or not to cache is at the user level.

Instead, I would recommend that you create a domain object to store the configuration settings to, and serialize the object to a local folder in the current user's isolated storage folder.

When the application starts up, just look into the current user's isolated storage folder, confirm the serialized file exists, and deserialize back to the domain object.

Upvotes: 2

Haris Hasan
Haris Hasan

Reputation: 30107

as you are in WPF world, you also can use App.XAML for defining and using color schemes

Upvotes: 2

Alex Aza
Alex Aza

Reputation: 78487

Use standard .NET settings framework.

More details here: How is the logic behind storing program setting in text file like 'config.cfg'?

Also this will help http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869%28v=vs.80%29.aspx.
Although this article is a little old, not much changed since then in this realm.

Upvotes: 1

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