hi. i heard somewhere that it was possible to use an xml file stored in the application directory instead of the windows registry.

is this at all possible?

do you know of any websites/books i could use to read up on this?

thanks.

do you mean as in using the xml file to store program information rather than having it stored in the registry. then if so yea. It is kind of weird to say but if this is the way windows will be going, then they are going back to the old way of doing it. pre-win95 i believe used to use .ini files for everything.

I'm not sure that it is possible, but it sounds like it shoudln't be that hard to figure out. Basically all you are doing is accessing the xml file and reading data from it.

Hope this helps.