Question

I develop a desktop application that will be installed in few stations in the local network, I want the *.settings to fetch the settings from the DB when the program loads, the save it on SaveChanges.

I don t care in which way to do it (I thought SQL would work best as this is the only common thing between the users, if you don t have better ideas), my point is to have settings file that is common to all the stations.

I need technicial details, please refer me to some good links or stuff.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think I will handle the retrival and saving of the settings to the DB thru the ApplicationSettingsBase s events.

Answer 2

I would do this if I were you:

Create an App.config, create a section that points to the location of your db. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="dbstring" value="\bignetworkdbabc.mdb"/>
    <add key="shareresourcedir" value=value="\bignetworkdb
esource"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Compile my application and distribute it. All the relevant setting will be stored inside yourapp.exe.config. Make sure that the dbstring section ( and all the related ones) are never ever changed across all the computers.

This is it.

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