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bthumber wrote: The next question is how do you compare those two strings? Read about the String.Compare[^] method. string s = "Nick"; string t = "Parker"; if(string.Compare(s, t) == 0) Console.WriteLine("Equal"); else Console.WriteLine("Not equal"); - Nick Parker My Blog | My Articles

That would depend on what you were storing. Not wise if it was something like connection string information (although yes you could encrypt it) and then want about an object, you would have to implement serialize functionality to be able to restore the state of the object.