Create A Simple XML File To Store Settings For An Annual Process
Jan 13, 2010
Each year I have to create 1099s from a legacy system. So in the past I had Foxpro code that ran out of a directory near where the Foxpro dataware house was. In 2009 we moved to SQL so I have to convert the code to VB and SQL
But I need to still store the text files and the report and I wanted to save settings in this "working directory"
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Does this seem like the propery way to do this?
Finding documentation on XML is really difficult, because there is so much yet all of the examples seem to do it a different way.
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Feb 26, 2009
I am using an .ini file to store my settings, so they are editable. But the thing is, it wont redirect? I had it working some minutes ago, but now, it just gives me a white page.. It didnt do that some minutes ago Here is my whole code, as it would take time to split it all that has with .Ini file to do.
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Jan 2, 2010
I'm working on a project right now that basically prints a string to the field that has focus in internet explorer and there's quite a bit of user specified information that needs to load when the vb program loads. Should I use a text file to store and retrieve the settings or a database? I'm a new programmer and I don't really have a clear idea on when I should use a text file compared to a database or the registry to store info. Also, if I use a database like access 2007 for example, wouldn't an end user run into an exception if they don't have that software installed on their comp? Is there a universal database format? I've linked some screenshots of the prog if you want to get an idea of how much info I need to store.
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Aug 19, 2011
Hi, I need to program a simple Web Browser that can search for keywords and store relevant data in another file.I am facing a problem with authentication, mainly cookies and maintaining a session.So I read that Web Browser Control is based on I.E.? So may I know how are cookies and session handled?Do I have to implement them manually or are they stored and retrieved from the same folder as the one used in I.E? If so, if I delete the I.E.'s cache, am I also deleteing the cache of any Web Browser I make using Web Browser Control?
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May 14, 2010
My first post! im quite new to programming but loving every minute of it.Basically i want to open another exe file from vb.net 2010. i can do it normally using
system.Diagnostics.Process.Start _ ("c:winamp.exe") if winamp for example is installed on another pc in another location i want to run it from my program but i want there to be sort of like a settings.txt file where you can edit the path to winamp and my program should first read the path set in the settings file and then open accordingly. how do i go about doing this?
btw it would be great if you could point me in the right direction for making a windows form where one can edit the settings file within my program without editing the settings file in notepad
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Jun 28, 2010
I store three items in My.Settings. One is a serialized string, and the other two are GUIDs. When the main form starts, those three items are loaded into various places. On rare, and so far unpredictable, occasions, one of these GUIDs is notably absent. The others may or may not be, I have yet to be able to check. Since it happens so infrequently (twice this month, though I have been working on the code every day), I'm having a very hard time tracking down the problem. However, it got me wondering where these values are stored. I see one of them showing up in App.Config, though without a value. Is there a place I can see the others?
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Aug 3, 2009
I am using it in conjunction with SQL2005. I am trying to replicate some simple activex script to create a new excel file that can be used as a data dump from a database.
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I have changed the file location references to make it easier to read. I have googled all morning but cannot find something that helps me. I think it has something to do with references?
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Jul 15, 2010
I have been reading about ADO, SQL, datasets, data adapters etc and have gone into information overload. My next step is to create a simple data file of my own that I can manipulate, update, sort etc in VB Express. Do I need another piece of software? I read about MySQL, which I understand is primarily used to access databases on the net, but can that be used to create a simple local data file on my PC? Can you simply hard code something in VB Express?
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Aug 23, 2011
Im learning Visual Basic 2010 on my programming class and we reached the part of file handling. Here i tried to make a simple program that can create a text file with the content of what i type on the textbox, basically i create the file if it doesn't exist, and if it already exists i append the content to it. Once the file is saved i can read it using the "Open" button. Unfortunataly, whenever i try to create the file, the compiler gives me an error saying that it cannot modify a closed file, although i've followed up the execution instruction by instruction and i can't find the error.
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
Dim body As String
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Jul 16, 2009
I 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?
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Jun 5, 2011
My question is How can i create insert,update,delete query by using class file and store procedure. This query is use for 3 tier.
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Apr 24, 2012
Basically i am creating a console application that will create and store client information as a .txt file it is going okay but i have come across a slight hick up i want to use something on the lines of this .....
dim lastname as string
Do Until Integer.TryParse(Console.ReadLine(), LastName) = False
Console.WriteLine("Invalid input, Please try again")
Console.Write("LastName:-")
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this works fine to trap out numbers from letters but the problem i am getting is when the program calls uppon LastName it is recording 0 and wanted to know if there is a way of getting past this ..... so basically i need a way to allow letter but not numbers and symbols and then dispay a pernolised error message but at the same time use Stream writer to save was the answer is in a .txt file.
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Jul 5, 2010
In Windows 7 if I launch Task Manager and select a process (eg:Notepad.exe) I can right click on this and select "Create Dump File".
This creates a dump of the file to my hard drive.I would like to do this programmatically.
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Dec 9, 2010
I am working on a calculator that does the annual percentage rate. The code has to use a For Loop (which I am new to). This is the code I have so far.
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Mar 15, 2011
I want to store a regular array in My.Settings. Not an ArrayList, not a StringCollection, just a string Array. Can this be done? If so, how is it done? I can't seem to find the string array datatype in the settings designer in Visual Studio.
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May 3, 2009
How I can store a bitmap in my.settings?
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Dec 2, 2008
I have a structure like this[code]...
How can I store this in my.settings? When I select browse to find the type, or simply type in "Register", it does not work.
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Oct 28, 2009
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How would you skip the process so the file is automatically created??
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Apr 21, 2012
Is there a way I can store HUGE strings without using settings? Or storing it outside the program?
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Feb 1, 2009
Does anyone know how to store settings/resources internally?I have this code (example).msgbox(my.settings.message)But this method generates a .resx file with the application.
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Jun 3, 2009
I want to find out how I can store text from a textbox, close the form and next time when I start it again, I want to load the text into the textbox that was previous entered. I have created a new application setting thing as a string. then in the textbox1_textchanged event I wrote
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Dec 27, 2011
You know how using My.Settings.something to store persistent data is done only for user settings and not application settings. This information is stored in the registry on the local user section.My problem here is that even if it is in the same machine, when a user changes some setting it is not reflected on other users. This is desirable for some of them but there are a few I would like to keep for all users.Is there a way to do it with the settings? Do I need to write to the registry in the machine section? or do you just recomend I create a configuration file?
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Oct 25, 2010
i need to store Application wide Settings in my Application like:
Connection to DB (Servername) Username/Password Registrar/Serial etc. I think there are basically two Options:
Store them in the Registry Store them in an Application Settings File Using one of the methods above is no problem, but under Windows 7 my Application running in normal user mode allows me only to store user specific data. For example inside UserAppDataRegistry, UserAppDataPath etc.
But when i want to use e.g. CommonAppDataRegistry to write my Data in, then i get no access to it, due to missing privileges.
Now my question:
Where and how to store Application Wide Data? How are others doing this? When i purchase an application and install it on my pc, it asks me for Uusername and Serial. When i insert it then it saves it somewhere without asking me for Administrative Privileges or something else.
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Dec 28, 2009
I have a license form that i wish to save the information or just system wide information for that matter,I know about the my.Settings - however this will only save for a specific user and the aplpication scope you can not write to.Where is the best place or the normal practice of saving application wide information?
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Feb 15, 2010
I'm working on a program that generates random values for a byte array thats length is 16.I have already devised the generation method, but I want to use My.Settings to store this...but I haven't seem to have located Byte() for My.Settings.
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Mar 20, 2011
I am developing an application, and i need to store some configuration settings, with time, i will need to add some more configuration settings. Am thinking of three alternative to implement that will me easy to access without much coding and efficient sqlite, xml, and application configuration file..But am concerned about security, because some personal data will be saved together.
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May 13, 2009
I've written a windows service in VB.NET 2.0 and the service needs to know a few file paths and other settings when it starts in order to be able to do what its supposed to do. These are settings that users of my service need to be able to configure themselves so I cant hard code them in.At the moment I just have the service look for a file named Config.INI in the same directory that it is being run from and if this file exists it attempts to read the settings in from there... this works perfectly, but it just feels a bit clunky and old. If it was a normal windows app I would store the settings in an XML file in the user's application data folder or something but as this is a Service then thats not possible as it is not run by any one user (well technically it is, the Local System account). I then thought about using the registry but I seem to recall people saying that you should avoid storing settings in the registry if you can really, especially with the new security in Vista and Server 2008.
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Nov 11, 2009
I'm wanting to store some settings for my program in an XML document. I've found plenty of places that allow you to write an XML document to somewhere on the hard drive although I'm wanting to link it in with the project so when the program installs it setups up the XML as well. This is also so when the program uninstalls it removes the XML.So I was wondering how I would go about writing to the XML document in my project, could it be done with Linq?
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Jan 12, 2009
how to store the connection string to my Access mdb in my project's My.Settings ?
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Nov 30, 2010
I have created 3 classes which inherits from(System.Collections.Specialized.NameObjectCollectionBase)
The first class "SQLCommandsCollection" stores "SQLCommands" in a collection.
The second class "SQLTableNamesCollection" stores "SQLCommandsCollection" objects in its collection.The Third class "SQLDBNamesCollection" stores "SQLTableNamesCollection" objects in its collection.
Ultimately I will sit with a "SQLDBNamesCollection" collection which contains all Table names and its respective SQLCommand objects.
I would like to store this "SQLDBNamesCollection" object in my.settings("QueryViewerQueriesPerTableNamePerDBName")
at runtime but I am unsure what this settings type should be.
I have tried system.oject but this does not seem to work as I get an "Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'Fusion.SQLTableNamesCollection'" exception when I try to retrieve from settings. See below code.
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