How do i do ini file in C#.Net ?

[asafaa]

in Visual C++ i had :

Set/GetPrivateProfileString , GetPrivateProfileint and more , creating a file with a label and a tag for each variable like :

[House]
chairs=5
doors=7
[City]
hospitals=2
airport=1.

Is there a better way to save values of variables when the application is closed and get them when the application starts ?

and if not , how do i make an ini file in C# ?

[stardv]

Use XML file and take advantage of .NET XML classes for manipulation

[Dmorley]

Yeah, should use XML where you can.

Pretty sure this is a link to a nice library that allows XML, INI, Registry etc editing (Couldn't confirm the link, the site is playing up..!)

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ReadWriteXmlIni.asp

Tidy bit of code..!

[jhammer]

I used Nini library (its free with source code), and really enjoyed it:
http://nini.sourceforge.net/
Here is an example of usage:
http://nini.sourceforge.net/manual.php#ASimpleExample

[asafaa]

thanks guys!

[efkefk]

Hello,
I am trying to use nini for ini files. Just one problem:

When trying to read non existing section/key, there is this error message "NullReferenceException was unhandled".

Do you know how to proceed to avoid this ?

Regards.

[jhammer]

Put try...catch surrounding the problematic code.


Or you could try to fix the bug (it's an open source with full source code)

[efkefk]

" try ... catch" works well.

Thank you.

[asafaa]

Why don't you catch the exception and do what you want with it ( could do nothing if you like) ?
try
{

// read and unexisting section - that will throw an exception

}
catch (Exception) // catch any exception thrown
{
// do something or nothing
}

[efkefk]

Yes, I did that.
This works well.

Thank you.