I've been a developer for many years, and I'm always looking for new ways to do things. I have a Lotus Notes application that uses profile documents to store configuration information(server names, file location, and etc.). I was thinking of maybe making an ini file to take place of these documents. Is there a common programmer practice for storing application configuration information? Is there a better way than an ini file?
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Application Configuration Best Practices?
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The current "best method" is to use the Windows Registry for storing and finding this type of information, according to MS. "ini" files can still be used as they are merely text files with keywords identifying lines of information. I often, however, just use a database for this so I can get at it more easily. I use Lotus Approach a lot.
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