To persist between sessions you need to store the data somewhere other than
the application.  The location you choose will depend upon the application,
the environment and whether you need the stored information to follow the
user around the network.

Usual suspects for storage spaces are:

* An XML configuration file
* The registry
* A database

but of course there are many other possibilities too.

Binding the form elements to a simple database would be the easiest
way.

"John" <info@nospam.infovis.co.uk> schrieb:

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You can store listbox content in a text file, and there are other ways
such as XML serialization, db...

See this that contains reading and writing listbox content into a
textfile:

To store listbox content in a text file:

Dim ItemArray(Me.ListBox1.Items.Count - 1) As Object
Me.ListBox1.Items.CopyTo(ItemArray, 0)
Dim Data As String = Join(ItemArray, Environment.NewLine)
My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText("c:\data.txt", Data, False)

The parameters of WriteAllText method are up to you (append, data,
path...)

But remember that, your text file will get bigger and unresponsive due
to large amount of text lines over the time, then you may want to
create a new text file.

To get the content of textfile into your listbox:

Dim reader As String
reader = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText_
("c:\data.txt")
Dim strs() As String
strs = Split(reader, Environment.NewLine)

For Each s As String In strs
ListBox1.Items.Add(s)
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