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Application Settings in VB 2005
by Ged Mead | Published  11/09/2006 | .NET Newbie ,  Visual Basic 2005 ,  Win Forms | Rating:
Ged Mead

Ged Mead (XTab) is a Microsoft Visual Basic MVP who has been working on computer software and design for more than 25 years. His journey has taken him through many different facets of IT. These include training as a Systems Analyst, working in a mainframe software development environment, creating financial management systems and a short time spent on military laptop systems in the days when it took two strong men to carry a 'mobile' system.

Based in an idyllic lochside location in the West of Scotland, he is currently involved in an ever-widening range of VB.NET, WPF and Silverlight development projects. Now working in a consultancy environment, his passion however still remains helping students and professional developers to take advantage of the ever increasing range of sophisticated tools available to them.

Ged is a regular contributor to forums on vbCity and authors articles for DevCity. He is a moderator on VBCity and the MSDN Tech Forums and spends a lot of time answering technical questions there and in several other VB forum sites. Senior Editor for DevCity.NET, vbCity Developer Community Leader and Admin, and DevCity.NET Newsletter Editor. He has written and continues to tutor a number of free online courses for VB.NET developers.

 

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   This article is intended to be a first pass at using My.Settings which is aimed at VB 2005 Beginners.   It is of course possible to drill down far deeper into this topic and hopefully I will be able to cover this in a later article.



   For the time being though, you now have the means to create, save, edit and access a whole range of Settings for your VB 2005 projects.  I hope you find this introduction to the subject to be useful to you.

 
I have included a   Demo which you can download and try out.



 



 
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Comment #1  (Posted by TobyT on 11/09/2006)
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Good for beginners.
 
Comment #2  (Posted by an unknown user on 12/05/2006)
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Usefull feature i've never heard about before, nice article.
 
Comment #3  (Posted by an unknown user on 12/16/2006)
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It is good for beginners & and to those that are not familiar with VB 2005.
 
Comment #4  (Posted by Michael Ifland on 02/11/2007)
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Thank You.
 
Comment #5  (Posted by Majed on 02/21/2007)
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Still too many details are missing.
 
Comment #6  (Posted by an unknown user on 08/18/2007)
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Ged's articles just keep getting better and better. Being a complete newbie I really appreciate the in depth explanation of details that I am sure are common knowledge to others.
 
Comment #7  (Posted by an unknown user on 10/19/2007)
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Good beginner article
 
Comment #8  (Posted by Noname on 01/04/2008)
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One big mistake:

In page 2, the formsize is set without ";" (semicolon) between size values which gives error. Developers must add ; to overcome error.
 
Comment #9  (Posted by Ged Mead on 01/05/2008)
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Hi "NoName". Thanks for pointing out this problem. I suspect that in truth, this may not be so much a big mistake as a fairly common locaization/internationalisation issue which occurs in many prjects where dates, times and numbers etc are used. This is because in many Western cultures, such as here in UK, we use commas, whereas elsewhere semicolons are used as delimiters.
All I can say for sure is that the sample works perfectly on my English UK system. I'm sorry if it has caused you problems.
 
Comment #10  (Posted by i.write.code on 01/22/2008)
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Perfect! Thanks for pointing out the Save and Reset methods. I was pulling out my hair over settings that always seemed to reset on their own when my application was restarted.
 
Comment #11  (Posted by Rob 73 on 05/02/2008)
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Just want to say thank your for a very clear, easy to follow and extremely useful article. I was initially reluctant to try using the 'my.settings' as i 'thought' it was difficult and complex when saving user preferences, and as a result nearly tore all my hair out trying to read and write from/to text files.
Thanks from me and my 'Not so bald head'
Keep up the good work!


 
Comment #12  (Posted by Hun Makinski on 10/12/2008)
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standards an easy to use enviroment. ,
 
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interact with all the junk coming from social blogs, ,
 
Comment #14  (Posted by an unknown user on 02/15/2009)
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It is a good article ... i would like to view the next part too...I want to know how to add a combo box item may be an array list in to the settings ... so that I can choose from the list using the properygrid control.
 
Comment #15  (Posted by an unknown user on 07/30/2009)
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Simple and clear and has clear code with down to the point. Thanks
 
Comment #16  (Posted by an unknown user on 08/20/2009)
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Outstanding. Thank you very much for taking the time.
 
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