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There are lots of ways to persist data in a desktop application.

A database is one choice. You would probably have to provide an installer unless you're using a file based database such as SQLite.

You might also just write to a file - either a text filetext file, an XML file, serializing objectsserializing objects, etc.

On a side note, while it is possible to store images in a database, it's been my experience that it's more trouble than it's worth. I tend to write them as files to a folder then track them some other way (database, etc).

There are lots of ways to persist data in a desktop application.

A database is one choice. You would probably have to provide an installer unless you're using a file based database such as SQLite.

You might also just write to a file - either a text file, an XML file, serializing objects, etc.

On a side note, while it is possible to store images in a database, it's been my experience that it's more trouble than it's worth. I tend to write them as files to a folder then track them some other way (database, etc).

There are lots of ways to persist data in a desktop application.

A database is one choice. You would probably have to provide an installer unless you're using a file based database such as SQLite.

You might also just write to a file - either a text file, an XML file, serializing objects, etc.

On a side note, while it is possible to store images in a database, it's been my experience that it's more trouble than it's worth. I tend to write them as files to a folder then track them some other way (database, etc).

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There are lots of ways to persist data in a desktop application.

A database is one choice. You would probably have to provide an installer unless you're using a file based database such as SQLite.

You might also just write to a file - either a text file, an XML file, serializing objects, etc.

On a side note, while it is possible to store images in a database, it's been my experience that it's more trouble than it's worth. I tend to write them as files to a folder then track them some other way (database, etc).