Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
You don't necessarily have to use that code to initialise the StringCollection. You can do it in the Settings designer. When you first add a setting of type StringCollection you'll notice that the Value column is empty, i.e. the setting is Nothing. If you then edit the setting and add an item you'll see that the Value column now contains some XML code. That code is a serialised StringCollection containing a single item. You can then edit the setting again and remove the item and you'll see that the XML code for an empty StringCollection is left behind.
I noticed the Add Item but I never realized that removing it would leave it empty yet initialized at the same time. This is exactly what I needed.