In my previous post about a component for file associations I described the way to do initial registration and mentioned the fact that it must be done with Administrator permissions as (especially with Default Programs) we need to put a bunch a stuff under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry key. »
Sometimes we need to do file associations with our desktop applications so that when a user clicks on a file in the explorer it gets opened with our application. This is a common task and it is documented in MSDN so I’m not going to explain it all again. »
When writing a client desktop application you often need to persist user preferences. There are a number of ways to achieve that including plain text or binary or xml files, registry, or even a centralized storage on a server if your application indeed talks to a server, etc, etc. »
Here's the goal:<br>We want to have a WCF service that is decoupled from the repository implementation. We want the infrastructure to take care of setting up the service, injecting the repository implementation and triggering the disposure of the service and the repository object. »
OK, I was convinced by Scott Hanselman's speech on social networking for developers (Part 1 and Part 2) so here it is. »