I know I am missing something conceptual here, probably pretty simple too.

I am trying to make a user preferences dialog box.

I have a Windows form with suitable textboxes on. In VB 2005 Express, I
created a datasource from the My.Settings object, and dragged the "fields"
from that datasource onto the textboxes. A bindingsource object appeared in
the tray, and the properties of the textboxes show the correct links in the
Bindings properties. So far so good.

On loading the form, however, I get a bunch of empty textboxes instead of
the values that are actually in the settings.

I can't see any code anywhere to make the bindingsource actually go and get
the data from the My.Settings object itself, nor how to make it send the
altered values back. I don't know whether I need a data.datatable
somewhere, but I'm not quite sure how to create it; or if it's just a
MySettingsBindingSource.Bindings.Refresh (no, that doesn't seem to do
anything).

Thanks in advance

Tim F