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I am using C# (.Net 2.0) to develop windows application. I need to store nearly 50 to 60 user settings.
Can anyone, please, tell which is better of the following?
Binary Serialization or Application Settings (user.config)
Thank you.
App-settings is built in, works, and has IDE support.
Performance isn’t really an issue for this small set of data; re binary, I would actively avoid
BinaryFormatterin this case, since app-settings typically evolve between versions, andBinaryFormatteris very brittle when it comes to versioning. There are other ways to serialize data as binary, but in this case I’m not sure I’d bother…