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I have a C# Dialog based app. I want to save the preferences/settings the user choose, so that I could reload them in the next run.
I am new to C#, may be this is something quite basic but I do not know.
Do I have to explicitly write them to a file like ini or something ? or is there a built in way to do that.
The kind of config data is like checkboxes selelected, numericUpDOwn, checkedListbox – checked items etc
Select the control in the designer. Scroll all the way up in the Properties window and expand (ApplicationSettings). Click the indicated button to open a dialog. Select the property whose value should be persisted (like Checked for a check box) and click New in the dropdown.
Be a bit careful, not all properties are suitable to be persisted like this. An example is the form’s Size. You don’t want to store the size when the form is minimized or maximized, that size won’t restore well. You need to do this by adding the setting in the Settings designer an only write it when the control is in the right state. In the case of Size, that’s when the Resize event runs and the WindowState is Normal.