Re: Persisting Application Scoped Settings

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:42:17 -0700, Chris Dunaway <dunawayc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What what I have read, Application Scoped settings in the setting file
are read only. Why is this? Is there a good reason for this
restriction?

One good reason is that application-scoped settings are generally things that should be set or changed only during program installation or by an administrator.

[...]
What alternatives are available to me to be able to persist
Application Scoped settings?

The "old" mechanism should work fine: create a registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and store your settings there. You will, of course, need administrator privileges to do that, which is as it should be (no regular user should be able to do anything that will affect any other user).

Pete
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