Lesson 6 - Birthday Reminder - Storing Data and Conclusion
In the previous lesson, Birthday Reminder - Wiring the Presentation and Logic Layers, we made our birthday reminder app up and running. All we lack is saving the list of people into a file and reloading it so the data isn't lost when the application is closed. We're going to solve this in today's C# .NET tutorial.
In the PersonManager
class, we'll add a new private
path
field with the name of the file where we want to save the
data:
private string path = "people.xml";
Next, we'll create two more methods - Save()
and
Load()
.
Save()
We'll use the
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