WinForms - which is easiest approach for persisting some data?

Question

Just building my first WinForms application.

Question - What\'s the easiest/best approach for saving some data between use of the application (e.g. list of URL wit

Answer 1

You should check out db4o. This lightweight open-source object database for .NET and Java objects is very useful when you simply want simple persistence. Its more query-able than a text file and not as heavy as an RDBMS. Its included as a library and persists to a file, so there are no out-of-process calls.

It can be added to your project by referencing the db4o library (download here). You give it a file path which you want to persist objects, and it handles the rest. You then can create classes to encapsulate your information and simply persist instances of them to the file through db4o. You can ask for them later through a very simple query interface.