Use Windows Forms Application Settings to Personalize Your Applications
Application Settings is a new feature in Windows Forms 2.0 that allows you to maintain both user- and application-specific data (known as settings). Find out how to use it to improve your application's usability with personalization.
by Wei-Meng Lee
April 9, 2007
ne way to improve the usability of your application is to allow personalization—where different users of the same application have their own set of personalized settings. To do this, you need a way to store user-specific data, such as the size of the Window, the background color, etc. And while some data should be user-specific, some data applies across the board—things like database connection strings, Web services URLs, etc.
In Windows Forms 2.0, a new feature known as Application Settings provides a good solution to the personalization problem, by allowing you to maintain both user-specific and application-specific data (known as settings). This article takes you on a tour of this new feature and how you can implemented it in C#.
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ne way to improve the usability of your application is to allow personalization—where different users of the same application have their own set of personalized settings. To do this, you need a way to store user-specific data, such as the size of the Window, the background color, etc. And while some data should be user-specific, some data applies across the board—things like database connection strings, Web services URLs, etc.
