Question

I have a simple question (I think) that I’m not making much progress finding an answer to with Google. I have a structure as follows:

/// <summary>
/// A class to represent the sync settings for a single camera.
/// </summary>
public class CameraSyncSettings
{
    public string ID { get; set; }
    public string SyncPath { get; set; }
    public bool OverwriteExisting { get; set; }
};

And then an array of these in the program, one for each camera:

List<CameraSyncSettings> MyCameraSettings = new List<CameraSyncSettings>();

Now, what I want to do is have a property in my settings such that I can read/write this array into it to persist the information between sessions.

How can I do this and what is the best/most efficient way?

Answer 1

You can achieve it by using Properties.Settings of type ListDictionary

    Example:
    Properties.Settings.Default.Example.Add("Setting1", new CameraSyncSettings());
    Properties.Settings.Default.Example.Add("Setting2", new CameraSyncSettings());
    Properties.Settings.Default.Example.Add("Setting3", new CameraSyncSettings());

    Properties.Settings.Default.Save();

see link for more information : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(v=vs.80).aspx

NB: You can set the Scope of Properties.Settings.Default.Example to Application or User