Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Application Settings

Settings in Visual Basic development are particular objects that provide a managed way for manipulating applications and user level settings. For example, you could provide users with the ability of customizing options in the user interface of your application. To save and read such customizations to and from disk, you can use .NET Settings. My Project provides a tab named Settings that enables specifying information at the application or user level. Figure 3.2 shows an example.

Figure 3.2 Settings Tab in My Project.

As you can see in Figure 3.2, you can specify an identifier for each setting, a type (which you can understand ...