C#

arnold_w wrote:

If you think about it, this would be very useful to avoid having a (separate) file that remembers the user's preferences (e.g. list of recently used documents, use spaces instead of spaces, etc). When you exit the application, you would just update the array that contains the user preferences (of course, since the executing file it locked, you first rename the executing file, then create a new file with the original file name and then self-destruct the original file).

arnold_w wrote:

something similar to a C-programming linker script in C#

arnold_w wrote:

possible to place the array in the end of the .exe-file

arnold_w wrote:

this would be very useful to avoid having a (separate) file that remembers the user's preferences

Carlos58 wrote:

34,000 records to load from the table 'Customers'

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    _ = OnFormLoadAsync();
}

private async Task OnFormLoadAsync()
{
    try
    {
        DataSet ds = await Task.Run(() => LoadCustomers());
        mycombo.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];
        mycombo.ValueMember = "code";
        mycombo.DisplayMember = "cust_name";
    }
    catch (Exception error)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Error.... " + erro.Message);
    }
}

private DataSet LoadCustomers()
{
    const string query = "SELECT * FROM Customers ORDER BY cust_name";
    
    using (OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(conex))
    using (OleDbCommand cmd = new OleDbCommane(query, con))
    {
        OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(cmd);
        DataSet ds = new DataSet();
        adapter.Fill(ds);
    }
}