Question

I store some string values in an array list at runtime. When the application closes I want to store the data from the array list in another location so that I can open and retrieve the data the next time the application starts. What are some possible ways to do this?

Answer 1

You can use Reading and Writing from/to files or storing the values in windows registry.
For Reading/Writing from/to files use:

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"C:/store.dll"); //for reading
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(@"C:/store.dll"); //for writing

This is the basic. Here are two great articles for this:

1. Reding from files
2. Writing to files

I used this for storing the High Scores for a simple game. 🙂

Here is a nice tutorial for using Windows registry.