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Is it possible to store a .Net object in the registry?
I want to store a generic List<> in the registry, and then retrieve it and parse it back to the List.
Is this possible, or do I need to manually serialize it and then deserialize it back?
[UPDATE]
Following the posted answers, I am going to serialize the object and save it in the Current User’s AppData folder.
Why the registry?
The appropriate place to store these kind of serialised objects is usually in the users’ Application Data folder or Isolated Storage. Though of course the method of serialisation is up to you. XML, binary etc, it’s essentially a file on disk.
You could consider things like ‘Local Database’ or SQL Server Express, depending on your data and concurrency needs.
Some applications do store a Most Recently Used (MRU) list in the registry, but that’s just by iterating all the values of a given key. I don’t recommend that approach.