Dear friends
i am trying to read .INI file using c#.
istead of StreamReader() i need to use GetPrivateProfileSection() to get the values of a specified section.
i am getting exceptions while using the method.
it will be great if any suggetions on syntax of GetPrivateProfileSection() method in C#
and how to do that.
thanks
ranadheer.
Using GetPrivateProfileSection() method in C#
harkat1
The GetPrivateProfileSection function retrieves all the keys and values for the specified section of an initialization file.
Reference to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724363.aspx
Hope it helps
Suganya Mahadevan
The question was asked as to how to use it in C# and not windows sdk
try this instead
[DllImport("kernel32", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern int GetPrivateProfileString(
string sectionName,
string keyName,
string defaultValue,
byte[] iniValue,
int bufferLen,
string filename
);
public string getString(string iniFilename, string section, string key, string defaultValue)
{
string retValue = defaultValue;
try
{
// prepare the default return and create a byte array to pass as a pointer
byte[] bRet = new byte[255];
// call the API function, passing a Section name, value name, default
// value, buffer length (length of the passed byte array) and the ini
// filename.
int i = GetPrivateProfileString(section, key, defaultValue, bRet, 255, iniFilename);
// as referred above we use a framework function to collect the string
// from the byte array used as a pointer. Note the 'i' variable is the
// return from the API call, this is passed to the text encoding as the
// total length of the return.
retValue = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(bRet, 0, i).TrimEnd((char)0);
}
catch (FileNotFoundException)
{
MessageBox.Show(" Ini file path undefined ");
}
return retValue;
}