Re: Ini File vs Registry
- From: Joseph M. Newcomer <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:25:04 -0400
What do you mean "abuse of my registry"? What, exactly, constitutes "abuse"? Where is it
defined that the sole purpose of the Registry is to deal with interactions with the
operating system? I never heard of this as a concept that could even make sense, let
alone that it is a policy decision anywhere, on any site!
The Registry was designed to hold structured information for whatever purposes the
programmer chooses to use it. It is there for a reason, and the reason is NOT exclusively
to deal with OS interactions. In fact, the whole idea of limiting for that purpose is
completely silly!
joe
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:59:54 -0700 (PDT), ".rhavin grobert" <clqrq@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 17 Sep., 15:18, Cameron_C <Camer...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
wrote:
Could someone offer me an opinion on whether or not storing application
specific information in an INI file rather that the registry could be
considered an "approved" technique.
Everything I have read suggests that information should be stored in the
registry.
I'd wish the programmers of every application on my system had asked
me before so i could tell them: DONT ABUSE MY REGISTRY! ;-)
use the registry for interaction with the OS, like adding new file
types. move per-user-data into a subfolder of the users application-
data-directory.
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