A way to store information

Question

I'm making a Console Application using Visual Studio, the coding is being written in (C#). The program is going to be a basic Command Prompt game.

So, I'm trying to find a way to store information.. I'm fairly new to coding in general, so I don't know what type of file I will need to make. I just want a way to store things like names, and character levels, so essentially strings and integers.

Although, I don't want to use a ".txt" file or something like that. I'm really looking for something embed into the program.

Thanks for taking the time to read my question; I'm happy to answer any further questions you may have, so that I can achieve what I'm working toward.

Answer 1

An easy and straightforward way would be to create a serializable class that stores all relevant data. This class can than be easily written to and read from e.g. a Xml file.

Sample code:

[Serializable]
public class GameData
{
    public int Highscore;

    /* Plus any other data you want to store */
}

public class Game
{
    private const string gameDataLocation = "C:\\GameData.xml";
    private GameData gameData;

    /* Your game methods */

    private void StoreData()
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(GameData));
        StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(gameDataLocation);
        serializer.Serialize(writer, gameData);
        writer.Close();
    }

    private void LoadData()
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(GameData));
        FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(gameDataLocation, FileMode.Open); 
        gameData = (GameData)serializer.Deserialize(fileStream);
        fileStream.Close();
    }
}

Answer 2

Totally missed Florians answer but I post this anyway since you might learn a few things from it even though it's essentially the same answer.

[Serializable]
public class Player
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int Level { get; set; }
    public Weapon Weapon { get; set; }
}

[Serializable]
public class Weapon
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public int MaxDamage { get; set; }
    public int Range { get; set; }
    public WeaponClass Class { get; set; }

    public enum WeaponClass { Sword, Club, Bow }
}

and then you can use these like this

var filename = @"c:\temp\player.xml";

var sword = new Weapon { Name = "Dáinsleif", MaxDamage = 42, Range = 1, Class = Weapon.WeaponClass.Sword };
var player = new Player { Name = "Fafhrd", Level = 19, Weapon = sword };

var ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Player));

var file = File.OpenWrite(filename);
ser.Serialize(file, player);
file.Close();

player = null;

file = File.OpenRead(filename);
player = (Player)ser.Deserialize(file);
file.Close();

The XML:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Player xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <Name>Fafhrd</Name>
  <Level>19</Level>
  <Weapon>
    <Name>Dáinsleif</Name>
    <MaxDamage>42</MaxDamage>
    <Range>1</Range>
    <Class>Sword</Class>
  </Weapon>
</Player>