ApplicationData.LocalSettings | localSettings property

Gets the application settings container in the local app data store.

Syntax

var localSettings = applicationData.localSettings;

Property value

Type: ApplicationDataContainer

The application settings container.

Remarks

The name of each setting can be 255 characters in length at most. Each setting can be up to 8K bytes in size and each composite setting can be up to 64K bytes in size.

The Windows Runtime data types are supported for app settings.

Windows Phone 8

This API is not implemented and will throw an exception if called.

Examples

Use the LocalSettings | localSettings property to get the settings in an ApplicationDataContainer object. Use the ApplicationDataContainer.Values | values property to access the settings in the localSettings container. This example creates and reads a setting named exampleSetting.

Call the ApplicationDataContainerSettings.Remove | remove method to delete the exampleSetting setting when you have finished with it.

var applicationData = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.current;

var localSettings = applicationData.localSettings;

// Create a simple setting

localSettings.values["exampleSetting"] = "Hello Windows";

// Read data from a simple setting

var value = localSettings.values["exampleSetting"];
        
if (!value)
{
    // No data
}
else
{
    // Access data in value
}

// Delete a simple setting

localSettings.values.remove("exampleSetting");

Requirements

See also

Tasks

Quickstart: Local application data (JavaScript)

Quickstart: Local application data (C#/VB/C++)

Concepts

Application data overview

Reference

ApplicationData

Build date: 2/25/2013