Posted by Mike Saunders on June 01, 2007 at 10:02:09:
In Reply to: Re: COSW.INI Corruption posted by Brian Levantine on May 31, 2007 at 11:58:50:
The debate between using Registry or INI has been going on for a long time.
And now DOTNET adds a new twist.
When becoming familiar with DOTNET (and this is still all I am... familiar) a while back I was reseaching this.
I believe the "best practice" these days are to use neither registry or INI files.
Sounds like today, application settings in XML files are the way to go.
I've not written any multi-threaded apps.
In any case I'd vote against using the registry without
doing a little more research first.
Using Application Configuration Files in .NET
http://www.codeguru.com/columns/dotnet/article.php/c7987/