Application Settings

Abstract

When you’ve finished an application and finally get it into the customers’ hands, you often want the ability to store application-specific information when the program runs. You might want to store a serial number or a hashed version of one. Other times, you might want to store a user’s name and company to display later on a splash screen. The full .NET Framework supports a System.Configuration class that handles the grunt work to store and retrieve application settings (in an XML format). Unfortunately, the .NET Compact Framework doesn’t support this namespace, so if you want to handle configuration settings, you have to do it yourself.