How to save some global settings,so anytime the windows application runs,can read it?

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Hello everyone!

I am developing a windows application,and i need to set some global variables,just like connection strings,paths etc.Then anytime the application runs,it should have this settings until changes are made to them.How can i achieve this? Maybe from a configuration file? Any help please ?

Thanks in advance ;)

Posted 18-Apr-12 0:15am

IviKAZAZI

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Solution 4

Here[^] is a microsoft article about how to use settings. I think it may be closer to what you are looking for.

Posted 18-Apr-12 10:35am

Kschuler

Solution 1

Better Way is to use the Module for that .
with the use of Module you can access all the public functions ,variables easily.then after your have to just create object of that and used it.

Posted 18-Apr-12 0:28am

Dipak V Nakum

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Eugene Sadovoi 18-Apr-12 16:49pm

ConfigManager allows to combine configuration from different sources. It could be different files or different modules. See solution 4 for correct solution.

Solution 2

Hi,

You can use static variables that you can use as a global variable

Add a class in your project say "MyGlobalClass.cs" and write following code:

C#

namespace CodeProject
{
    public static class GlobalClass
    {
        private static string ConString;
                
        public static String MyConnectionString
        {
            get { return ConString;}
            set { ConString;= value; }
        }
    }
}

Here, you can use ConString variable as a global variable to store or retrieve your connection string

C#

GlobalClass.MyConnectionString= "Data Source=localhost\SQLExpress;User Id=sa; Password=pass; Initial Catalog=Deepak; "; // Set your connection string
string ConString = GlobalClass.MyConnectionString; // Get your connection string

Posted 18-Apr-12 0:33am

Deepak_Sharma_

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IviKAZAZI 18-Apr-12 6:36am

This is what i have done already,but i wanna know if,when i close the application and reopen it,the user input that i stored at the global variables are the same as last input,or they are refreshed? sorry for the bad english ;)

Deepak_Sharma_ 18-Apr-12 6:44am

Then you have to store this information either in the database or in a text file.

One more thing why not you store these information in App.Config file. Store your connection string in <connectionstrings> and other settings in <appsettings>

IviKAZAZI 18-Apr-12 9:30am

But the connection string must be an user input,it might change!

Eugene Sadovoi 18-Apr-12 16:43pm

You should store this info in .config file. ConfigurationManager provides you with ways to use different storage facilities, one of which is config file.
See solution 4 for example.

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IviKAZAZI · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-18T03:47:00

Solution 3

I found the solution with .ini file,there i store the settings.
thanks to this article An INI file handling class using C#[^]

Posted 18-Apr-12 3:47am

IviKAZAZI

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Eugene Sadovoi 18-Apr-12 16:44pm

This is outdated and no longer supported way of storing config info.