Allow user to Save Settings

[TimmyLee]

I am working on a little VB.NET program, and I have alot of entry fields for whoever is using the program. How can I have it so they can save their settings so next time they open the program It uses the settings they gave it? And then in turn how could I have it so they could after doing that, return it to the original default settings? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. By the way I would prefer the settings not be saved to something like a .log or .txt file.

 

[Robby]

You can save settings to the registry or an XML file.

 

[TimmyLee]

I kinda figured that, however, I have not ever done that before and am unsure as how to do it.

 

[Robby]

Which?

 

[Derek Stone]

If you save the settings in a class instance you can easily serialize it to file (save and load).

 

[jorge]

To save data to the regestry use:
SaveSetting("Name of app", "Folder", "keyname", "value")
to retreve it:
GetSetting("Name of app", "Folder", "keyname", "default value if key doesnt exist")

 

[Robby]

If you have lots of settings to save then Dereks approach would be best.