The Mimer Provider Manager needs information to access the correct underlying provider. Another reason for separating configuration information from the application is to ease portability. Configuration settings are different for different providers.
To explicitly tell the system to use the registry use an application configuration file with the following appsettings (you may need to adjust the version number to the release of the Mimer Provider Manager you are using):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<appSettings>
<add key="Mpm Configuration"
value="Mimer.Mpm.Data.ConfigReg.MpmConfigStartup, Mimer.Mpm.Data.ConfigReg, Version=1.1.3.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=90474c83ee7ec777"/>
</appSettings>
The information can be stored in the Windows registry. The information in the registry is managed the Mimer Provider Manager Administrator. The administrator can be used to setup objects such as Data Sources, Plugins, and SQL Filters. In general, however only data sources are used, as the other two are setup during the installation of the software.
The registry information is stored under the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mimer Provider Manager
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mimer Provider Manager
Information for the current user overrides the information that are system wide.