Save User Data In Silverlight

So I’m writing a little time wasting game that step-father 2.0 came up with.  It’s a sort of sudokuesque columns blend.  Of course we want to have a way to keep track of your top ten scores for bragging rights. 

Anyway, in Silverlight you get, to start out, ten megs of isolated storage on each user’s drive to work with.  You can prompt them for more space if you like but for our purposes we’ve got plenty of room for a little text file to store the top ten scores.   private

void SaveScore() {

List<double> scores = new List<double>();

string rawScores = LoadData(“scores.dat”);

/* If there are scores, read them in */

if(rawScores.Length > 0) {

string[] splitScores = rawScores.Split(‘;’);

scores = splitScores.Select(a => double.Parse(a)).ToList();

}

scores.Add(score);

/* Get the scores in order highest to lowest */

scores.Sort((a,b) => b.CompareTo(a));

/* Take the new top ten and semicolon delimit them */

string newScores =

scores.Take(10).Aggregate(“”, (a,b) => (a + “;” + b)).TrimStart(‘;’);

SaveData(newScores, “scores.dat”);

}

And the supporting methods..

private

 

void SaveData(string data, string fileName) {

using (IsolatedStorageFile isf =

IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()) {

using (IsolatedStorageFileStream isfs =

new IsolatedStorageFileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create, isf)) {

using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(isfs)) {

sw.Write(data);

sw.Close();

}}}}

private

 

string LoadData(string fileName) {

string data = String.Empty;

using (IsolatedStorageFile isf = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication()) {

using (IsolatedStorageFileStream isfs =

new IsolatedStorageFileStream(fileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, isf)) {

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(isfs)) {

string lineOfData = String.Empty;

while ((lineOfData = sr.ReadLine()) != null)

data += lineOfData;

}}}

return data;

}