[THIN] Re: Developer Questions - Addendum
- From: "John A. Vorchak" <jvorchak@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:07:07 -0500
There is a section on MSDN titled "Terminal Services Programming
Guidelines" which has a subsection for Storing User-Specific Information
at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/library/en-us/termserv/termserv/storin
g_user_specific_information.asp
From my personal experiences, HKCU is the definitely best spot to put
user specific information for all current terminal services versions and
for S03 (especially since S03 will be able to handle larger a registry
much more effectively). There are just far too many issues that could
potentially happen with an ini file or something along those lines.
Also, if you need to make changes later on to the application settings
for the user(s), it will be much easier to do a policy or a script to
update their registry than to replace the ini file, especially if the
change only affects some users.
-John
=====================================
John A. Vorchak (eMVP)
Vorchak Software
Custom Windows XP Embedded and
Windows NT Embedded Components and Solutions
jvorchak@xxxxxxxx
=====================================
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Schneider, Chad M.
> Sent: Monday, 17 February, 2003 10.34
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Developer Questions - Addendum
>
>
> Options.....
>
> 1. A .ini file located in the Windows folder. For some reason this
irks
> me
> as I there are so many other places that MS wants you to stick stuff
> besides
> the main OS folder. It seems so Windows 3.1.
>
> 2. The <User Profile>/Local Settings folder can't be used I understand
as
> it
> doesn't get stored by Citrix.
>
> 3. The registry is a big no-no as everyone uses the same one. A least
for
> the main HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. But how about the HKEY_CURRENT_USER
or
> some other main key? I wouldn't think so since the Window 'current
user'
> is
> the Citrix machine login, right?
>
> 4. An application database table that stores all this stuff. At least
> that
> way the settings would follow them around if they used different
> terminals,
> er...PCs (sorry, couldn't resist). A little overkill perhaps but
maybe
> not
> so bad since most internal apps need a DB connection anyway to run.
>
>
> I guess I am leaning toward #4. What do you guys think? Is there any
> other
> way to do this stuff?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schneider, Chad M. [mailto:CMSchneider@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:19 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Developer Questions
>
>
>
> What is the Citrix recommended way of storing personal, unique
application
> settings per user when running a Citrix app? Is a .ini file in the
Windows
> folder the only way?
> For example, these are for like dialogs that have a checkbox on them
that
> say something like a "Don't ask me this again" type of question. Where
do
> I
> store that they checked this?
>
> Any answers to these would be helpful.
>
*********************************************************
This Week's Sponsor - RTO Software / TScale
TScale increases terminal server capacity.
Get 30-40% more users per server to save $$$ and time.
Add users now! - not more servers. If you?re using Citrix,
you must learn about TScale! Free 30-day eval:
http://www.rtosoft.com/Enter.asp?ID=79
**********************************************************
For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or
set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link:
http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm
Other related posts:
