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Remembering User Information in Visual Basic .NET This article provides coverage of storing user-specific settings using XML Serialization
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Nice article but... As with most articles on serialization it leaves out the very important issue of versioning. When we serialize classes (binary or xml) for persistance it is very likely that we will need to read it back with a differnt version than when we wrote it. In fact I think the framework implementation is a little light on versioning support. The MFC solution required code to serialize/deserialize each member but had good suppor for steering the deserialization based on the version number of the persisted data.