If I have a class that hold, for instance, user settings that should be
accessible to the entire program logic, what is a good paradigm to use?
In C++, I would have made it a global object, protected if necessary
for thread safety. In C#, of course, there are no global objects.
The Program object is static, so cannot contain object instances.
While I could store it in my main form pass it around, that seems
cumbersome. I could do a singleton, but this seems like a lot of work
just to get around the "better programming style precludes global
objects" imperative.
What is the simple yet "proper" method people tend to use for this in
C# (to which I am new)?
Thanks!
Dave
5  4937  da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
If I have a class that hold, for instance, user settings that should be
accessible to the entire program logic, what is a good paradigm to use?
In C++, I would have made it a global object, protected if necessary
for thread safety. In C#, of course, there are no global objects.
The Program object is static, so cannot contain object instances.
While I could store it in my main form pass it around, that seems
cumbersome. I could do a singleton, but this seems like a lot of work
just to get around the "better programming style precludes global
objects" imperative.
What is the simple yet "proper" method people tend to use for this in
C# (to which I am new)?
Thanks!
Dave
To answer my own question (and to get things done while I wait for the
group wisdom), I wound up doing a singleton, with the instance called
"Current".
Thus, I reference the single UserSettings object from anywhere within
the program as
UserSettings.Cu rrent
Seem ok? da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
To answer my own question (and to get things done while I wait for the
group wisdom), I wound up doing a singleton, with the instance called
"Current".
Thus, I reference the single UserSettings object from anywhere within
the program as
UserSettings.Cu rrent
Seems very standard to me.
Arne da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
If I have a class that hold, for instance, user settings that should be
accessible to the entire program logic, what is a good paradigm to use?
In C++, I would have made it a global object, protected if necessary
for thread safety. In C#, of course, there are no global objects.
The Program object is static, so cannot contain object instances.
While I could store it in my main form pass it around, that seems
cumbersome. I could do a singleton, but this seems like a lot of work
just to get around the "better programming style precludes global
objects" imperative.
What is the simple yet "proper" method people tend to use for this in
C# (to which I am new)?
Thanks!
Dave
To answer my own question (and to get things done while I wait for the
group wisdom), I wound up doing a singleton, with the instance called
"Current".
Thus, I reference the single UserSettings object from anywhere within
the program as
UserSettings.Cu rrent
Seem ok?
That's the nice solution.
In most of my programs I have very few settings, so I tend to make them
local variables in Main and then pass them to the classes where they're
needed, where they become statics. A UserSettings singleton is a
cleaner solution, though.
I use a UserPreferences class that contain a "static constructor",
static methods, static properties, etc. da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
If I have a class that hold, for instance, user settings that should be
accessible to the entire program logic, what is a good paradigm to use?
In C++, I would have made it a global object, protected if necessary
for thread safety. In C#, of course, there are no global objects.
The Program object is static, so cannot contain object instances.
While I could store it in my main form pass it around, that seems
cumbersome. I could do a singleton, but this seems like a lot of work
just to get around the "better programming style precludes global
objects" imperative.
What is the simple yet "proper" method people tend to use for this in
C# (to which I am new)?
Thanks!
Dave
Dave Herron wrote:
I use a UserPreferences class that contain a "static constructor",
static methods, static properties, etc.
da**@softwareon line.com wrote:
If I have a class that hold, for instance, user settings that should be
accessible to the entire program logic, what is a good paradigm to use?
In C++, I would have made it a global object, protected if necessary
for thread safety. In C#, of course, there are no global objects.
The Program object is static, so cannot contain object instances.
While I could store it in my main form pass it around, that seems
cumbersome. I could do a singleton, but this seems like a lot of work
just to get around the "better programming style precludes global
objects" imperative.
What is the simple yet "proper" method people tend to use for this in
C# (to which I am new)?
Thanks!
Dave
If your using .net 2.0 you could consider looking at
ConfigurationMa nager.AppSettin gs. That takes care of persistence as
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