Saving and Loading

Question

Hi Is there any way of saving and loading a VB.NET Form. I have a small project where a user inputs a lot of info in to a bunch of text boxes and I want to have him/her pre a button and save this data somehow and load this data back into the same text boxes later on. Thank you

MythicalMe · Answer

This is a case where the topic is too large to handle in a single post. Whole chapters of books are devoted to data datasets and read/write. In a nutshell Dim ds as DataSet . . . (add your data to the dataset) . . . ds.WriteXML(MyData) To read XML data back use: ds.ReadXML(MyData)

saphiroth42 · Answer

How can I do that? How can I save just the data the user has entered?

MythicalMe · Answer

You don't actually want to save the form you just want to save the data. There are many ways to read and write data. Probably the easiest is to create a dataset to store your information and then use the dataset ReadXML and WriteXML functions.