Best way to store data locally in .NET (C#)

Question

I\'m writing an application that takes user data and stores it locally for use later. The application will be started and stopped fairly often, and I\'d like to make it save

Answer 1

XML is easy to use, via serialization. Use Isolated storage.

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public class UserDB 
{
    // actual data to be preserved for each user
    public int A; 
    public string Z; 

    // metadata        
    public DateTime LastSaved;
    public int eon;

    private string dbpath; 

    public static UserDB Load(string path)
    {
        UserDB udb;
        try
        {
            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer s=new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(UserDB));
            using(System.IO.StreamReader reader= System.IO.File.OpenText(path))
            {
                udb= (UserDB) s.Deserialize(reader);
            }
        }
        catch
        {
            udb= new UserDB();
        }
        udb.dbpath= path; 

        return udb;
    }


    public void Save()
    {
        LastSaved= System.DateTime.Now;
        eon++;
        var s= new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(UserDB));
        var ns= new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializerNamespaces();
        ns.Add( "", "");
        System.IO.StreamWriter writer= System.IO.File.CreateText(dbpath);
        s.Serialize(writer, this, ns);
        writer.Close();
    }
}