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dynamic Userconifg question

I'm working on a program that will sort files based on extension

I currently use a internal dictionary to store the extension/location

.jpg  / c:\blab blab\my documents\my pictures
.mp3 / c:\blab blab\my documents\my music
.gno / c:\familytree

etc

I would like to make this program less specific to me and allow users to configure what folders get monitored and what type of file extensions go where

the problem I get into is I'm not sure how to write / display the portion of the user config that would store the extension associations

Ideally I would like to display them in a datagridview or something of the sort but I'm completely lost on how i would do that

Thanks if you can help(or even if you cant)

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Please look into this question thread or this post. You can also use settings to store the required paths.

Else there is difficult path of saving them in registry. Have a look at this article for starting.

TheVillageIdiot  2009-05-28 13:36:31
I may have been unclear in my orginal post. I know how to save and retrive simple tings like string from the settings file. I am confused as to what would the best way to store something more complex liek a dictonary and how would the user view it to make changes?
Crash893  2009-05-28 15:15:36
you can simply serialize the dictionary object to disk! If the user is not going to make changes very frequently it will be a good approach.
TheVillageIdiot  2009-05-29 02:03:56

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