settings file in windows mobile development.

Question

BH

Hi, i'm creating an application for windows mobile using c# and visual studio.  I've noticed that in the windows mobile enviroment there is no settings.settings file.  How can i save certain data about the application?  For example, can i save the date of when the first time the application ran on the windows mobile device?

thanks so much.

Aron

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Answer 1

You can write it to a file or to the registry.  Compact Framework is missing a lot of the fancy stuff the full framework has, but all of the basic stuff is there.

Answer 2

BH,

 

Hi and thanks so much for your answer.  I've tried to write to a textfile useing streamwrite, but the problem is that it is looking for a file in a different folder (not where the executable file is located).  How do i make sure that the file it is reading from is infact in the same folder where the program file is?  My code is below:

using (StreamReader TodaysPointsStream = new StreamReader("todayspoints.txt"))

{

string todayspoints = TodaysPointsStream.ReadLine();

}

using (StreamWriter RecordTodaysPoints = new StreamWriter("todayspoints.txt"))

{

RecordTodaysPoints.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString());

}

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Answer 3

Hi aniyahudi,
Welcome to the MSDN forum!

Please look into the following link:
http://bytes.com/topic/net/answers/115705-how-get-current-directory-exe-c

Then, you may try the following methods:

Application.StartupPath
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.startuppath.aspx

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.reflection.assembly.getexecutingassembly.aspx

Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.G etExecutingAssembly().GetName().CodeBase)

Have a nice day!

yoyo

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Answer 4

Hi Aron,

I'm moving the thread to .NET Compact Framework for better support.

Thanks.

yoyo

 

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Yoyo Jiang[MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 5

Hi,

You can save setting to you registry:

http://www.malleswar.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=16

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-Malleswar