Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

My.Settings Events

My.Settings provides some interesting events that allow understanding of what is happening behind the scenes. Here are the following four events:

• SettingChanging, which is raised just before a setting value is changed

• PropertyChanged, which is raised just after a setting value has been changed

• SettingsLoaded, which is raised just after settings values are loaded

• SettingsSaving, which is raised just before settings values are persisted to disk

To handle such events you simply need to double-click the Settings.vb file that is automatically added by Visual Studio when you define a custom setting. The file just contains a partial class definition for My.Settings so that it makes it easier to write custom code without putting ...