Storing informations

Storing informations

DeeSharp 07 Dec 2015 16:13

Hi! here is DeeSharp from Italy :) I bought the C# player's guide and l'm happy that I bought it because I start to love programming again ( maybe after C#, I will love C++ again too).

I have a question, because I'm a bit confused.
In the first part of the book are introduced the variables (what types, values, ect) and they are describes as like boxes that store information (chapter 5).
Let's say I want to build a Software like a Phonebook or something like this, basically my Phonebook software let the user write some datas, store these datas and modify/erase them if needed.
From tutorials I saw on youtube with C#, most of them are done with databases (sql or access).
My question is, for example a phonebook software:
is there a way to store, modify datas stored without using a database? when using database is required?

Let me know,
Bye from now!
D

Re: Storing informations

Emblis 08 Dec 2015 10:40

Hello DeeSharp!

There are multiple way to do this. If you are looking for short term storage, only for the lifetime of your program I would simply store it as a string in a class. I am guessing that is not what you are looking for though, you want to save it to your hard drive.

My personally favorite way of storing data outside of databases are XML documents, they are easy to understand and are readable by both people and computers. C# even has build it support for it!

Another way is to simply serialize it, although I would not recommend it since it is very hard to read and interpret for humans.