Hi:

In VB I used GetPrivateProfileString (from the Windows API) to pull in 
certain values I needed to start an application.

These are values I've determined I needed for application settings.

I know that I can use GetPrivateProfileString but I'd really rather learn 
how to do it using conventional C# methods.

I have the book Professional C# 2nd Ed.
I looked at the stuff on Configuration files but it seemed exclusively 
intterested in setting versions in shared components, etc.

All I want is to be able to pull a file in w/ some values and then read 
them into some variables.

How can I do this?

You can use config files for whatever you want: Xml is a much more
flexible structure for storing information than registry keys or ini
files, and accessing the values is simple using the System.Configuration
namespace.

brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Marl Atkins [mailto:marl@s...] 
Sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:58
To: ADO.NET
Subject: [ado_dotnet] Configuration files??


Hi:

In VB I used GetPrivateProfileString (from the Windows API) to pull in 
certain values I needed to start an application.

These are values I've determined I needed for application settings.

I know that I can use GetPrivateProfileString but I'd really rather
learn 
how to do it using conventional C# methods.

I have the book Professional C# 2nd Ed.
I looked at the stuff on Configuration files but it seemed exclusively 
intterested in setting versions in shared components, etc.

All I want is to be able to pull a file in w/ some values and then read 
them into some variables.

How can I do this?
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