Many programs use the registry to store persistent data such as settings or user defined variables – which are really just settings, too – which can be retrieved whenever the program needs them. These settings survive, in most cases,  multiple loadings and unloadings of the program, uninstallation of the program, reinstallation of the program, update or upgrading of the program, and program crashes. This makes the registry a very valuable place to store these settings!

If you’re creating your own program, maybe you’ve already considered how you were going to save the settings. Well, saving your program’s settings to the registry is a piece of cake, and I’m going to show you how. Using the Windows Registry »

I’ve been really lax in making some posts here, and the main reason is that I didn’t have anything to share. Considering the new project that I have undertaken (see PocketPress), I think I have plenty to share now. Thus begins my series of posts about my adventures in programming with C# in Visual Studio 2008.

I put together a few test programs in various languages, mainly C++, C# and VB, as well as PPL and Java, before finally deciding on C#.  By far, the easiest for me to program would be VB, since I’ve already done a fair bit of VB programming, and C++ would be a close second. PPL and Java felt like more effort than it was worth, considering I have no experience in either and I can get the same thing done with less effort in any other language. I finally decided on C# for its easy form designing, like VB.NET, and familiar programming flow, like C++.

I still have a lot to learn about programming in C#, but it doesn’t feel like it’s going to be very difficult. I guess we’ll see!