When you can put configurations values in the registry, are environment variables a thing of the past?
When you can put configurations values in the registry, are environment variables a thing
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When you can put configurations values in the registry, are environment variables a thing of the past?
When you use .NET and the default way to store per user settings they are stored in .setting file in
%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Applicationdirectory.So this way even registries are things of past.
Registration-Free COM also gives a way of registering COM components without using registry.
That being said environment variables give a easy way of a passing information from a parent process to a spawned process. This is true for OS X , Windows and Linux. For this they are immensely valuable