C# Storing Application Settings

CountingCrows

I'm attempting to store application settings, however I'm having trouble storing/accessing multiple values.

E.g I want to store a text list of colours for use in a drop-down box, I've edited my app.config to this;

<setting name="Colours" serializeAs="String">
<value>Green</value>
<value>White</value>
<value>Gold</value>
</setting>

But

Properties.Settings1.Default.Colours

will only contain the 1st value - "Green".

Any ideas? Or is there an easier way to store application settings with multiple values?

lynchie

Been a while since I done some .net stuff, but I think you need to serialize your settings as xml and use xml as your value or something along those lines as serializeAs="String" just stores a single value

<setting name="Colours" serializeAs="XML">
<value>
<colorlist>
<color>Green</color>
<color>White</color>
</colorlist>
</value>
</setting>

Evil Phil

The problem seems to be that that you have 3 value elements in your setting and you should only have one as you're using serializeAs="string". Have a read of this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229207.aspx which explains the elements. Then you could have a read of: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k4s6c3a0.aspx and perhaps roll your own custom settings.

You may even be able to serialize it as XML and then deserialize the XML as you want it in code.

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lynchie beat me to it
</edit>

CountingCrows

Muchas gracias!

I'll test it out in the morning.