Save User settings in MonoProject

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Good day! I'm developing crossplatform application in MonoDevelop and I want to get the opportunity for user to save user's settings. How can I do it in MonoDevelop?
Many thanks in advance

Posted 19-Aug-12 21:10pm

Maximys

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 3:14am

Did you try to read the documentation?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-08-19T21:13:00

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It's all explained in the documentation:
http://monodevelop.com/developers/articles/user_profiles[^].

—SA

Posted 19-Aug-12 21:13pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Maximys 20-Aug-12 3:39am

Many thanks for your response. This link about User Profiles of MonoDevelop. But I haven't found anything about how to save user's settings in my project(program) here. Could you please explain me this question. I need anything like class Settings in .NET Framework

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 3:45am

What's the problem; do you want to do it in universal way, programmatically? You need to use MonoDevelop.Core.PropertyService.Locations. When you find the location, you need to copy everything to other location of your choice. Is the copy a problem? :-)
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 3:46am

The Settings in not the adequate example -- they did not save Visual Studio settings, but the application settings. And you were asking about IDE setting, were you not?
--SA

Maximys 20-Aug-12 6:20am

No, I'm asking about my application settings

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 15:21pm

Only?! Wait a minute, now what part of this code is not available in Mono?
Besides, I consider Application Settings as obsolete since introduction of Data Contract:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733127.aspx
--SA

Maximys 20-Aug-12 19:44pm

After I had worked with Mono, I wrote the following code:
//
String configFileName="TestsaveParameters.exe.config";
string appPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
string configFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(appPath, configFileName);
ExeConfigurationFileMap configFileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
configFileMap.ExeConfigFilename = configFile;

System.Configuration.Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(configFileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
//

label1.Text=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["key1"];
label4.Text=config.AppSettings.Settings["key1"].Value;

//----------------------------------------------------
//String configFileName="TestsaveParameters.exe.config";

/*string appPath = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
string configFile = System.IO.Path.Combine(appPath, configFileName);
ExeConfigurationFileMap configFileMap = new ExeConfigurationFileMap();
configFileMap.ExeConfigFilename = configFile;

System.Configuration.Configuration config = ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedExeConfiguration(configFileMap, ConfigurationUserLevel.None);*/

config.AppSettings.Settings["key1"].Value = "New Value";
config.Save();
//====================================================

label2.Text=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["key1"];

label3.Text=config.AppSettings.Settings["key1"].Value;

It's working right. But I don't want to create a separate configuration file in the directory, because there may be a login / password, which can be stolen by inappropriate user. I would like to attach a file to the user's preferences exe file. How can I do such a thing?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 20:20pm

Damn config or settings?! Those are too different things.
--SA

Maximys 20-Aug-12 22:37pm

Config

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 23:58pm

(Sigh)
Config should be supported in Mono as well as in .NET...
--SA

Maximys 20-Aug-12 20:15pm

I have found decision. I should add to project Environment Variable and use it by Environment class.Thank you for help

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Aug-12 20:20pm

Looks very unrelated. Using Environment variables is generally a very bad thing.
--SA

Maximys 20-Aug-12 22:36pm

You are right. This method is really unworkable. Could you help me find another decision?

Maximys 20-Aug-12 22:54pm

Sergey, I have read you link more carefully. Now I try to execute next code:
String key1="key1";
String value1="value1";

MonoDevelop.Core.PropertyService.Set(key1, value1);
Console.WriteLine(MonoDevelop.Core.PropertyService.Get<string>(key1));

But I have next exception:
Missing method Set in assembly /home/Maximys/Param2/Param2/bin/Debug/Param2.exe, type MonoDevelop.Core.PropertyService

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 0:00am

And where is that method..?
--SA

Maximys 21-Aug-12 2:10am

Could you explain what do you mean?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Aug-12 14:33pm

I just formally referred to the error message about the missing method you mentioned in your previous comment. You know your code better -- where is the missing "set"?
--SA