[dba-VB] Application settings

My understanding of Properties.Settings is that settings must be by User
in order to be saved and the xml file will reside in the Local 
Setting/Applications
directory under the user's My Documents folder.

In that case, all projects under a solution could read a single xml file.

We decided to use cryptographic services for the i/o of the xml by
using an internal static class that reads/writes to a string collection
using methods we created like bof, eof, movefirst, addnew, etc.

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Michael R Mattys
MapPoint and Database Dev
www.mattysconsulting.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues." 
<dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Application settings


> OK, it appears that each project has its own set of properties.  If I set 
> the same property in the
> current project's property set then
>
> Properties.Settings.Default["ServerName"].ToString()
>
> works just fine.
>
> But that is not the behavior I want.  I need a SOLUTION property set, 
> which appears to not exist?
> Which perhaps would explain why those who have done this before roll their 
> own?
>
> Does anyone have code to do this so I don't have to roll my own (a.k.a. 
> reinvent the wheel) too?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:
>> Hi Gustav and all,
>>
>> JC original request was "to access/modify" application settings AFAIU:
>> <<<
>> I want to create application settings for things like the server instance
>> that the program will bang on, the name of my database that I save my 
>> custom
>> UDFs and SPs in etc.  It is trivial to get there in the interface but 
>> Google
>> is not my friend tonight in discovering how to access / modify them 
>> through
>> code.
>>
>> --
>> Shamil
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
>> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 1:19 AM
>> To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com
>> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] Application settings
>>
>> Hi Shamil
>>
>> I guess I'm too busy today. I read it as JC wanted to create these on the
>> fly ...
>>
>> /gustav
>>
>>
>> <<< snip >>>
>>
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