Question

I’m writing a C++ MFC program, and I see programs that remember the last input values for some fields from one program run to the next. I could do this by saving it to a file and loading that and then repopulating, but is there another, quicker way of doing this, as I think I remember reading somewhere that these values could be stored in the registry? If anyone has an example or personal experiences, I would be very interested.

Thanks,
James

Answer 1

There are many options out there

I personally don’t like the registery and prefer to keep my program portable.
so what I can think of right now are
1- ini files

2- property files

3- SQL server

4- you can also synchronize the user settings via web server, but as @Jeeva mentioned there are security considerations

Cheers