I need to save some string settings at runtime and read them back. They will need to be changed at anytime during runtime also. The examples I have found says they are obsolete for vs2008. how to save and read some string settings? I found alot for the application settings that to me are ones you set once for the app like in an asp.net site. I need to change these anytime like you would in a registry.
View 10 RepliesOkay so i have a problem with saving the users settings. Okay i have about 50 check boxes on my frm1.So for example if the user clicks on check boxes 1 and 2 the next time when the user starts the program i want check box 1 and 2 to be checked
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What is the correct way to handle saving user control settings on form close. I have a tabcontrol that a user can add tabpages during runtime. The user control has a few controls (listbox,combobox,textbox) How can I save the created tabpages and the data in each control in the usercontrol? Below is how I am calling my usercontrol
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Public Class TabPageEx
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.TabPage
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I seem to be a little lost as most documentation seems to suggest that I can not save usercontrol settings in the app.config. I have played around with the solution expl. settings tab without much success. But, then again I may be going about it all wrong. So, I am looking for a little direction on the best way to handle this on form close.
I'm currently writing a program that needs to open a file specified by the user, replace a certain string of text with a different string of text, and save it to the user-specified path. Here's what I have so far:
Private Sub forceButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles forceButton.Click
Dim writer As New IO.StreamWriter(OpenChart1.FileName)
Replace("", "E *", "N 5 0")
End Sub
I'd like to know if there's a better way to read/write various user settings to disk. My program loads up a bunch of settings during load but also during execution from a few different forms, encrypted string values, boolean values, different types. The code seems to work okay but I have a feeling it's just not the best way to be doing this. Some of the settings are encrypted strings that have to be decrypted/encrypted so the code to read/write the text file is a bit different on some items. The data read from disk usually goes to a public string, a textbox, or a up/down type control. Below is about 1/10th of the settings that get loaded/written at various times. Anyone have a better way that might be more efficient that I should look at?
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A while back, I wrote my own settings provider because I was having problems persisting settings in a class library. (Note - I had no problems persisting settings from an application).Today, I just did a test of persisting class library settings and it worked, without my custom provider.The test is:
(1) Create a class library
(2) Add a setting - 'Name'
(3) Add a class with a public shared property 'Name' that reads and writes to the setting 'Name'.
(4) Create an application that references the class library, and use the shared property to read and write the 'Name' setting.
I'm sure that before the 'Name' setting would persist while the application was open but after I closed it and re-opened it, the setting would revert to the default.This is not happening now and I'd like to be sure that I was being an idiot before and not an idiot now.
ETA: I've noticed that the first time I create a test app, change the setting, close, and reopen, the setting is not persisted. Subsequently it is. May be I gave up after one try before. Any ideas why it's not persisted the first time?
ETA2: As an example, I have a class library called 'MyLibrary' and a test application called 'MyApp'. I do the steps 1-4 above, and below are the contents of the user.config file found at C:Documents and SettingsUser NameLocal SettingsApplication DataMyAppMyApp.vshost.exe_Url_vi5gjcooahbdm2ma3dcay0mkexu2suul1.0.0.0. Note: I did not touch the settings in MyApp;-
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="userSettings" type="System.Configuration.UserSettingsGroup, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral >
<section name="MyLibrary.My.MySettings" type="System.Configuration.ClientSettingsSection, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, allowExeDefinition="MachineToLocalUser" requirePermission="false" />
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I am rewritting my application to conform to ms standards. We used to save all settings to registry for user settings, servername, size and locations.so we are now saving them into My.Settings app.config the only problem is that each time there is an update clickonce will isntall the newupdate but now all settings are loist and user has to save everything all over again..
I am trying to follow the book here but it seems i keep getting stuck somewhere. registry has worked fine for years but i understand we must move on, but if stuff like this happens then i just wasted a long time converting all code to conform for it to not work..
I'm trying to save a setting I've defined under Project -> Settings -> FirstRun, type boolean, scope Application, default value, false,But it doesn't seem to work, this is my(the text box does not stop, every time I open the program it shows)
Private Sub Form1_Shown(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Shown
If Not My.Settings.FirstRun Then
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how do I save settings of a form like its background color, fonstyle, sontsize etc. I cannot save them as string or text into my access database.
View 4 RepliesI have a form with 31 checkboxs which i want saved when the user exits the form and two other buttons, One 'OK' and another 'Cancel'How do i save the checkbox settings when the user clicks the 'OK' button and not have them saved automaticly when the user exits the form?
I have setup the controls in the Settings of the application properties, i just need to have the checkbox checkstate saved only when the user clicks the 'OK' button and not saved automaticly by my application.Below is some code with the OK button that saves the settings and the Cancel button.
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I have the creating INI file down, but how would I get it to read the text and then, based on the text there, make things checked/unchecked
Dim SaveFile As New StreamWriter("Settings.ini")
My question is , i have just made a project for my appointments like, Name,Date,Time and Notes and all viewed in a listview grid but how would i save the entrys ?Like to save 1 line i can easly use my.settings but how about mutliple lines ?Here is a screenshot:It would be best to save it into the program like my.settings or something
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim lSingleItem As ListViewItem
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How do I save my programs settings in a document? Like total sessions used, Total accounts created. Also, How do I make a text file save and load every time the program is opened or closed? The saved accounts should be like this in the text file.
Account: Account name E-Mail: E-Mail used Password: Password used
Account name, Password, E-Mail will will all be in a textbox or combobox so if you can make it save from there. I have an total accounts created combobox. How would I make that load into a combobox and then when session is closed they all save. So loaded into a combobox then saved into a text file.
When I save settings for an application using My.Settings.Save it saves it in %AppData%LocalCompanyname. Because I don't want my app to be installed and I want it to be a just .exe file, and it leaves some files on that computer. I like it to be in my apps location. Can I change that default location?
View 4 RepliesI would like to create a program that user can save his settings in the program and not on the computer .I want to make something like icon changer ιnstead it will work for strings not icons String Changer?
View 4 Repliesok, I have a "sum" for ading the total prices in list view. The prices are in the sub items. After they are added up ( they display as total: �{0}) how would I save them to add up later amongs other things I have saved in my.settings???
View 3 RepliesI'm having trouble getting the objects of the PageSetupDialog and the PrintDialog to persist in my.settings Is there an example of this anywhere? Seems like it should be something there is a boiler plate for so I can see where I have gone wrong.Added a System.Drawing.Printing.PageSettings and System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings entries in my.settings but even trying to save these form the results of the dialogs they show as nothing with out a error.
I am not sure what the heck I am doing wrong. I would like if when the user selects no, then the app setting is nothing. By nothing I mean nothing, I am using "Nothing" to test but its not working it returns whatever is in the richtextbox
This is in my formclosing event
Dim msg As String = "Do you want to save your comments?"
MessageBox.Show(msg, "Save", MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question)
If DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.Yes Then
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This problem has frustrated me to the extent that I am now willing to make a one-time donation of GBP25 to the nominated charity of the person who provides what I consider to be the most helpful answer over the next 24 hours.
Let us say I have a VB 6 SP6 Standard EXE project called VB6EXE.vbp and I am working on this in the VB 6 design-time IDE.VB6EXE.vbp references a compiled VB 6 SP6 DLL project, let us call that VB6DLL.dll VB6DLL.dll references a .tlb which references a compiled VB 2008 library assembly, let's call that VB2008.dll So in abstract terms the arrangement looks something like this:
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1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
I've got a VB .NET application that has an auto-updater that updates the exe and manifest files of the application when it finds a new version. For some reason when I update those 2 files, it also clears the user settings, even though Im not replacing the exe.config file.
View 5 RepliesI know that when using my.settings that when I exit my app that it saves them and then next reload it imports my.settings back.
My question, is there a way to create this user.config file on the apps first load?
I am working with that app.config for the first time and am having a bit of trouble getting it to work. I was able to get the most recent opened files added but can't seem to get it saved.
Here is the load event
Private Sub frmPrefsDialog_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
If My.Settings.RecentOpen Is Nothing Then
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I know similar questions have been asked/answered, but after looking across the net for 2 days I still haven't really seen an answer to the following question.rst, background info: My application starts at windows start as a user checkbox option (by using the run key in the registry.) I don't know if it is usual or not, but when the app auto starts on windows start, no saved user settings show up on the form (but they do when starting the program manually after windows is already running). I've tried both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. In case anyone needs or wants it, my code for accessing the registry is:
Dim Reg As Object
Reg = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
Reg.RegWrite("HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRUN" &
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I have a textbox in my program which refers to the user specified path. Everytime the program is started it retrieve the setting :
Private Sub frmmain_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
If My.Settings.path <> "" And My.Computer.FileSystem.DirectoryExists(My.Settings.path) = True Then
txtpath.Text = My.Settings.path
ElseIf My.Settings.path = "" Then
When I try the program on my own system there is no problem. But the customers said that everytime they start the program the messagebox popups and they have to choose the path again and again.
Here's my code what do I need to add to Save the workbook as an Excel file to a user specified directory?
Dim ExcelReport As Excel.ApplicationClass
Dim i As Integer
Dim New_Item As Windows.Forms.ListViewItem
Const MAX_COLUMS As Int16 = 254
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The problem is this: I have two forms. One form and the other form do mathematical calculations. I want to save the values that the user inputs, so when the user quits the program and then starts it up again the values are still there. But when I open up the program, start typing in values, then calculate them, hit quit. Try to open up the program again, its giving me a message that the input file is invalid. When I click ok, the program doesn't crash, continues. But the values are not there at all. The other form I put exactly the same code, just changed the variables and it doesn't want to save the values at all! I wrote this code for saving and loading the values:
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I am looking for the best way for settings within settings. Example would be an IRC network list. Which will be displayed as desired writing. If i clicked edit on that network it would bring up another form with that networks setting. Take xchat for example. what would you say would be best suited? XML seems more suited.
View 12 RepliesI've a project called G.S.S. There's a 2 forms in the G.S.S and a checkbox on the form2. I added these codes:[code]Then I created an another example project to try these on, added 2 forms, a checkbox on form2 and wrote same codes. I wondered when I run the app because it's running perfect. It saves the settings.So what's wrong with my G.S.S project?
View 5 RepliesWhat I need to do is read an ArrayList in My.Settings and add another ArrayList to it. The first think I'm trying to do is load My.Settings.Records into myArrayList. I'm not quite sure on the proper way to do this. I've tried things such as Dim myArrayList As ArrayList = My.Settings.Records, I'm not sure if I need New and I'm not sure if I need .Clone or .CopyTo.
Then I have another ArrayList myArrayList2. To get this into myArrayList I've done: [Code] Then to save it back to My.Settings I've done. My.Settings.Records = myArrayList. The problem is I keep on getting Object reference not set to an instance of an object error on the AddRange line. My.Settings.Records is definitely an ArrayList and it will sometimes = Nothing. The objects will only ever be strings.