Favorite Method to store data?
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
Rarely, if ever, was there the need for me to store my files in binary format. I use XML as my preferred file format unless needs dictate otherwise.
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
Depends on the data :)
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
Depends on the data but if it's conf, preferences, ... I prefer XML
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
I'll second Mustafa's suggestion of XML. You can't beat a format that supports highly-structured data that you can debug with Notepad if necessary. I reserve XML for data that I'm persisting, with the idea of loading it into my application. For pure logging situations (output only), I'll dump the data as simply formatted text, or as HTML.
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I'll second Mustafa's suggestion of XML. You can't beat a format that supports highly-structured data that you can debug with Notepad if necessary. I reserve XML for data that I'm persisting, with the idea of loading it into my application. For pure logging situations (output only), I'll dump the data as simply formatted text, or as HTML.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
You can't beat a format that supports highly-structured data that you can debug with Notepad if necessary
Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't debug with Notepad. Well - not without you doing some serious hacking on it beforehand.
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Not a Programming question.. just a question out of curiosity. I've been working on a Windows Service, I had the need to dump some data to a file. I started creating a binary file... however now that I'm 5 hours into debugging it.. I'm starting to think I should have used XML. What's your preference? Is it different based on the situation and the language you're using?
(*) SQLServer (*) Access (*) XML As far as possible, try clinging on to a standard database.
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