Storing Application Configuration

Phil Haack‘s words “Do not store user settings in an application configuration file!” reminded me of something I made a while back, in order to store user settings in an application. I used the Object Model Generator to create an object oriented representation of my configuration and wrote a wrapper for it to load from, and persist back to, an Xml based format….

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