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Here is a new way of reading and writing .ini files in C#.
 

It’s an alternative INI file parser written by me. It uses Regex and Collections. I’m only posting a part of the source code because it is too long. But if you scroll a little bit you can download the full source with a Demo project included.
 

Please redistribute and modify under the terms of GNU LGPL v3.0.

 
Source code:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Globalization;
 
namespace MPIniReadWrite
{
    class MultiplatformIni
    {
        private String iniFilePath;
        public String IniPath
        {
            get { return iniFilePath; }
        }
        private static Char decSep = NumberFormatInfo.CurrentInfo.NumberDecimalSeparator.ToCharArray()[0];
        private static Regex keyValRegex = new Regex(
          @"((\s)*(?<Key>([^\=^\n]+))[\s^\n]*\=(\s)*(?<Value>([^\n]+(\n){0,1})))",
            RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace | RegexOptions.Compiled | 
            RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
        );
        private static Regex secRegex = new Regex(
          @"(\[)*(?<Section>([^\]^\n]+))(\])" ,
          RegexOptions.Compiled | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant
        );
 
        private ArrayList newValues = new ArrayList();
        struct sectKeyVal
        {
            public String section, key, value;
            public sectKeyVal(String section, String key, String value)
            {
                this.section = section;
                this.key = key;
                this.value = value;
            }
        }
 
        public MultiplatformIni(String iniFilePath)
        {
            this.iniFilePath = iniFilePath;
        }
        ~MultiplatformIni()
        {
            Flush();
        }
// Source code truncated...

 
Download the full source code and an example (Visual C# 2005 Express Project)

I’ve compiled this using .NET framework 2.0 and Mono 2.2 with no problem. Have fun!