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Greg - 20 Oct 2004 20:28 GMT

I am in the midst of rewritting a VB 6 desktop application to vb.net
desktop. It has a whole series of hard coded values that I would like to
store in an ini file for easier future modification. It seems that ini
files are not in favor anymore and xml are the files of choice now. Can
someone give me a heads up on how I read and write to an xml file in vb.net?
Are there any "rules/standardization/suggestions" I should try to adhere to?
This is a personal application and is not for client or public use.

Thanks,
Greg

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W.G. Ryan eMVP - 20 Oct 2004 20:34 GMT

You can just use Add New Item, Application Configuration. create an
appSettings section and store the values in there. System.Configuration is
the namespace that makes this very simple.
http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/configfiles.html

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> I am in the midst of rewritting a VB 6 desktop application to vb.net
> desktop. It has a whole series of hard coded values that I would like to
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Dick - 21 Oct 2004 10:44 GMT

Beautiful for reading settings, but what if my program must write a setting
to the xml file?

> You can just use Add New Item, Application Configuration. create an
> appSettings section and store the values in there. System.Configuration is
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scorpion53061 - 21 Oct 2004 11:49 GMT

Hello Dick,

http://www.kjmsolutions.com/xmlsettings.htm

> Beautiful for reading settings, but what if my program must write a
> setting
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Atara - 24 Oct 2004 09:42 GMT

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/XMLSettingsFile.asp

Atara

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 24 Oct 2004 11:55 GMT

"Atara" <Atara@DD.com> schrieb:

> http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/XMLSettingsFile.asp

Storing and loading user preferences
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=userpreferences>

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