Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

Hour 20. Working with the Registry and Text Files

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Using My.Computer.Registry to create and delete Registry keys and values

Using a StreamWriter object to open, read, and edit text files

Modifying your Picture Viewer program to use a text file and the Registry

Text files have been around since the early days of computing, and even today they are useful for storing data. For robust applications, a database is the way ...