Registry vs. INI file for storing user configurable application settings [closed]

Pros of config file: Easy to do. Don’t need to know any Windows API calls. You just need to know the file I/O interface of your programming language. Portable. If you port your application to another OS, you don’t need to change your settings format. User-editable. The user can edit the config file outside of … Read more

Where does Eclipse store preferences?

Source : Eclipse wiki If you want to keep preferences from one version to the other, export them using File/Export/Preferences. Preferences are stored in various places (this applies to Eclipse 3.1) for each installation (but this may vary for multi-user installations), in files stored in: <eclipse_home>/eclipse/configuration/.settings/ There is typically one file per plugin, with a … Read more

Is there a way to change the extensions folder location for Visual Studio Code?

What I did – after installing Visual Studio Code for the first time, I checked the documentation and added at the end of ‘Target’ field of editor’s shortcut the following (there’s a space before the two dashes): –extensions-dir=”DRIVELETTER:\VSCODE\extensions” –user-data-dir=”DRIVELETTER:\VSCODE\settings” where DRIVERLETTER and VSCODE are the corresponding drive and directory where Visual Studio Code is installed. … Read more

Where is the data for Properties.Settings.Default saved?

Since you selected user scope, they are saved in each user profile directory, more specifically, inside the AppData folder of the user profile in a file named user.config. The full path is dependent of the application. In Windows 7 without roaming profile and with an Windows Forms Application named Example.Settings.CustomClass I’m getting the following folder: … Read more

How to save Atom editor config and list of packages installed

Use Git to version control your config file (~/.atom/config.cson), and any other config files (dotfiles) you may have. You can then host your Git repository for free on somewhere like GitHub, and retrieve it on other computers simply by running git clone https://github.com/{username}/{repo}. You can then keep it up to date using git push (to … Read more

What accounts to use when installing SQL Server 2008 Developer

From Microsoft: Local System account. The name of this account is NT AUTHORITY\System. It is a powerful account that has unrestricted access to all local system resources. It is a member of the Windows Administrators group on the local computer, and is therefore a member of the SQL Server sysadmin fixed server role Network Service … Read more

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