saving state between program restarts

Question

How can I declare a variable which would save sting forever?

I mean if the user closes and restarts the program, this string value is not lost.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

There are a number of different ways to store state for an application. The approach really depends on the type of data you are storing and other requirements

Options

• Use the Settings classes built into .NET
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730869(v=VS.80).aspx
• Store the data in some type of file or database
• Send the data to a webservice or the cloud

Answer 2

Save the variable value to a database or other storage.