Storing Profile Values in an INI File

Hi Everyone,

I've searched the forums but have been unable to find an answer to this situation.  Hopefully it's something simple and I've just missed a step.

I'm working on a new application and in order to make it more compatible with Windows Vista and the expectations of Vista I'm attempting to store my applications profile values in an INI file in the "Application Data" folder rather then in the registry.

According to the MSDN documentation you can accomplish this by settings the CWinApp member m_pszProfileName and not calling SetRegistryKey() at all.

When I do this my application and the Xtreme ToolkitPro stores the profile values in the INI file properly, however when I run the debug version I get asserts when the program starts and when it closes.

The asserts are coming from the following lines:

HKEY 
hKey = AfxGetApp()->GetAppRegistryKey();

void CXTPCommandBars::LoadOptions(LPCTSTR
lpszProfileName)

HKEY hRoot =
AfxGetApp()->GetSectionKey(_xtRootSection);
ASSERT(hRoot);

void
CXTPDockingPaneLayout::Save(LPCTSTR strSection)

AfxDelRegTreeHelper(m_hParentKey,
m_strSectionName);

void
CXTPPropExchangeRegistry::EmptySection()

Hi Oleg,

Thanks for the response!  I was looking at the source code a bit more and noticed that the first ASSERT if coming (originally) from the XTPFrameWnd's function LoadCommandBars where the source code says the following:

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
   
// Summary:
    //     Call
this function to retrieve state information from the registry
   
//     or .INI file.
    //
Parameters:
    //    
lpszProfileName - Points to a null-terminated string that
specifies
    //                      
the name of a section in the initialization file
   
//                      
or a key in the Windows registry where state
   
//                      
information is stored.
    //    
bSilent         - TRUE to
disable user notifications when command bars are restore to their
original state.
   
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Is this on its way ... I really need the ini file saving/loading??