How to create an unreachable text file ?

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I want my program to save some information to use them on the next startup of the program ...
is there any other way better than writing on a text file ???
and if there isn't, can you tell me how to protect this text file and prevent other people from seeing or editing or removing it????

thanks :)

Posted 17-Sep-11 2:24am

George_Rasmi

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-09-17T02:30:00

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The normal way is to use Application Config files: MSDN[^]

Posted 17-Sep-11 2:30am

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George_Rasmi 17-Sep-11 9:11am

What is application Config files?
how do I use them ???

can you help me with that?

Philippe Mori 17-Sep-11 19:05pm

It is fairly easy to add a configuration file from Visual Studio if none were already created for your project type.

It is harder to prevent the file from being removed or edited. Generally, if the file is deleted, then the application will uses default values on next startup.

Also, those files are by default hidden in a subdirectory of application data so to edit or delete it, your user really need to want to do it.

If you store sensitive data, it should be encoded. That way, it will be relatively hard to tamper with the data.

If you still want more protection, then your are more on your own...