SimpleSettingsStorage

The aim of settings provider is to quickly give you a simple way to store application settings and read metadata about those settings, like description, name, default values etc

v2 Has added a few things to make versioning easier, the Key attribute allows you to rename properties, and types are no longer fully qualified (so you can move classes)

Nuget package

https://www.nuget.org/packages/SimpleSettingsStorage/

Usage

Start of by creating your settings class, marking up with metadata

public class MySettings
{
    [DefaultValue("Jake")]
    [DisplayName("Your Name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DefaultValue(true)]
    [Description("Should Some App Remember your name?")]
    public bool RememberMe { get;set; }

    public List<Guid> Favourites { get;set; }

    [Key("OriginalName")]
    public string Renamed { get; set; }

    [ProtectedString]
    public string Encrypted { get; set; }
}

Reading Settings

  var config = new StorageConfigBuilder()
    .FileName("Test.json")
    .SetAppName("TestApp")
    .SetFolder(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)
    .CreateIfNotExist(true)
    .Build();

  var storage = new Storages.JsonSettingsStorage();
  storage.Configure(config);

  var provider = new SettingsProvider(storage);
  var mySettings = provider.GetSettings<TestSettings>();

Saving Settings

var config = new StorageConfigBuilder()
    .FileName("Test.json")
    .SetAppName("TestApp")
    .SetFolder(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData)
    .CreateIfNotExist(true)
    .Build();

var storage = new Storages.JsonSettingsStorage();
storage.Configure(config);

var settingsProvider = new SettingsProvider(storage);
var mySettings = new MySettings { Name = "Mr Ginnivan" };
settingsProvider.Save(mySettings);

Settings MetaData

This is handy if you want to generate a UI for your settings

var settingsProvider = new SettingsProvider();
foreach (var setting in settingsProvider.ReadSettingMetadata<MySettings>())
{
    Console.WriteLine("{0} ({1}) - {2}", setting.DisplayName, setting.Description, setting.DefaultValue);
}
// Prints:
//
// Your Name () - Jake
// RememberMe (Should Some App Remember your name?) - true

Additional Notes

• Nested complex types do not have the same features and simply use the DataContractJsonSerializer to serialise