Where to Store Application Settings
In .NET programming, it’s standard practice to store application settings in XML documents (usually with a .config extension). The difficulty arises when you need or want to have your application behave differently in different situations. You must either support this in the configuration file or look to a data-driven settings architecture in which you use data to configure your application. If you choose the latter solution, a database is the natural place to store the data that drives your application’s settings.
Before you adopt the data-driven settings model, you should first understand some of the reasons to use configuration files for your application. If your application does not require a database ...
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