How do you let a user choose the app database location?

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Writing software for a client, and one of their requirements was that the user be able to specify where the application database is stored, be it on the local network or in an online repository.

I can let them choose where to put it, but how do I store that information in the application?

I guess I don't understand how to persist changes in an application that is already deployed. This is my first piece of software, so I've never been through the deployment process. Written in C# for Windows.

info about database location is to be stored in [Configuration file that can be modified by user in C#](http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/191419/configuration-file-that-can-be-modified-by-user-in-c "see possibly duplicate question") — gnat, May 15 '14 at 18:35

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 15 '14 at 18:36

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For something like a target path, just use Application.Settings to persist it.

answered May 15 '14 at 18:36

Robert Harvey

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Thank you! I don't have enough rep to vote yet, appreciate the answer. – user996413 May 15 '14 at 18:53

How do you let a user choose the app database location?

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