Saving & Restoring User Info on Forms

Just for my information what is wrong with storing info in the registry. My experience is that IT departments prevent registry editing to stop people stuffing things up not to prevent programmers writing to it.
Regards - Nathan

 

Ed- as a creature of old habit, i'm more comfortable and familiar with tables. I suppose I also rely on the db to do things our native methods don't (like sort layer names), so I typically use temp tables for this.
To be a bit more clear, what i'm trying to say is that since I already write to a db for forms, I may as well stay there for saving data...


Nathan wrote:
Just for my information what is wrong with storing info in the registry. My experience is that IT departments prevent registry editing to stop people stuffing things up not to prevent programmers writing to it.
Regards - Nathan

 

Hi Nathan,

Following comments made by Ed and Tony, I have rung around a few of the IT
Managers with whom I'm on friendly terms and asked for opinions.

They all strongly support the general concept that normal users cannot write
to the HKLM part of the registry.

Installers can and hence I am going to revise my software such that the
Installer can nominate a data storage location where users have read/write
access and I will write the location to the HKLM so that the software can
find it. This has a further functionality increase as the data location
nominated can be on a data server, and hence becomes available to the whole
office.

Back to Oberon's original query: I believe he has reached the right
conclusion in writing the data to a file format with which he is familiar.

With my code it will be easiest to use CSV files, but I'm wondering if,
despite the learning exercise, I should use XML for future compatibility
with .NET

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Laurie Comerford
CADApps
www.cadapps.com.au

My experience is that IT departments prevent registry editing to stop people
stuffing things up not to prevent programmers writing to it.

 

Thanks again for the input. This thread seems like it helped a few people out