Custom add-in: Store user preferences

[DRoam]

I can build a UI for specifying user preferences easily enough -- but what's the best way to store those so they persist from session to session? Can I have my add-in create an XML file for these? If so, where should said file be stored?

[HermJan.Otterman]

If you build an addin, then you could read from and write to the windows registry...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/developing-apps/programming/computer-resources/...

[bradeneuropeArthur]

use the setting of the add in

add a setting like Setting001 as boolean = true

then use this in your code

My.Settings.Setting001 = false ' or true

My.Settings.save

this will store the settings in the inventor XML file

[DRoam]

Hmm, that could work. Is that pretty safe to do as long as I'm staying inside my own custom key/folder? I would assume if I create my own key, say under "Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\<MyAddinName>", I don't need to worry about corrupting Windows or other applications. Is that correct?

[HermJan.Otterman]

in visual studio you also have, under the application properties Settings.

here you also can store things

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/cftf714c(v=vs.100)

[HermJan.Otterman]

yes you can do that.

If you write an application for other people you could get some trouble with rights if they are limited

I used Hkey_currernt_User

[bradeneuropeArthur]

My mandatory or default settings are always loaded on loading the add in.

But before I do that I check if they exist and than only write them if they are not there.

So only when the user first starts the add in otherwise I don't write them. 

[DRoam]

So there is a built-in settings mechanism in Visual Studio, that's really neat. Any advantages to using the registry over this?

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@bradeneuropeArthur wrote:

My mandatory or default settings are always loaded on loading the add in.

But before I do that I check if they exist and than only write them if they are not there.

So only when the user first starts the add in otherwise I don't write them. 

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Can you explain what you mean by this? How do you "check if they exist"? Exist where?

What do you mean you "don't write them" unless it's the first start? Aren't they already written in the app.config file at compile-time?

Thanks again for the help.