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POWPF/C#: Where should I be saving user preferences files?
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copied!<p>What is the recommended location to save user preference files? Is there a recommended method for dealing with user preferences?</p> <p>Currently I use the path returned from <code>typeof(MyLibrary).Assembly.Location</code> as a default location to store files generated or required by the application.</p> <p>EDIT: I found two related/interesting questions:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/147533/best-place-to-save-user-information-xp-and-vista">Best place to save user information for Windows XP and Vista applications</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/348022/whats-the-way-to-implement-save-load-functionality">What's the way to implement Save / Load functionality?</a></li> </ul> <p>EDIT #2: This is just a note for people like me who had never used settings before. Settings are pretty useful, but I had to do a whole bunch of digging to figure out what was going on (coming from the Python world, not something I am used too). Things got complicated as I wanted to save dictionaries and apparently they can't be serialized. Settings also seem to get stored in 3 different files depending on what you do. There is an <code>app.config</code>, <code>user.config</code> and a <code>settings.setting</code> file. So here are two more links that I found useful:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/ddeaca86-a093-4997-82c9-01bc0c630138" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/ddeaca86-a093-4997-82c9-01bc0c630138</a> </li> <li><a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/efe370dc-f933-4e55-adf7-3cd8063949b0/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/efe370dc-f933-4e55-adf7-3cd8063949b0/</a></li> </ul>

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