Need Help - File IO or Database?

[FalconDEW]

Ive been reading tons of posts between the File IO forum and the Database forum. Lots of them have been really helpful, but Im still torn on getting an answer to my problem.

Im writing a simple program that will require me to store data I collect. I dont have any tricky data, its really just like 20 variables on each user... with a max of 100 users.

Ive considered just defining a type to hold the variables, and then write everything to a file... but I dont want to be reinventing the wheel if I can try to figure out the ADO or XML DB solutions in VB.NET.

Can somebody recommend what method they would use to track this data? Preferrably, since Im new to .NET and things seem a bit more complicated than they used to in VB6, can you also give me a few keywords or snippets of code for me to disect? It really helps when I know what keywords to research.

Thanks in advance!

 

[fadi]

i didnt get what u really want, but u have several solutions, u can write ur variables to an xml file using the xml namespace or u can save the variables in a dataset and then use the writexml method of the dataset to write to a file