1 more amazing question!!!

ok, to all the guys that read my last post on accessing a control out side of the form class, the solution is below, change it to what eva u want but the demo situation is as follows, 2 classes. one class is the form1 class the other class has one sub, the form also has a textbox, to get access to the textbox from the sub:

+public sub form1
+public class SMTP
-public sub SMTP

in the sub dim's just add this line(edit it first)

dim anynamehere as formnamewithcontol

now when you need it use the following, when you press the dot, u should have a fun menu appear, thenu can use .textbox1.text or what eva :D, hope this helps ppl

anynamehere.


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i almost forgot that i have a question to ask, GOMEN....
i have to save some settings but i dont think i want an ini file, i want an XML file like ppl have been talking about, i have seen then in some programs and they looks good and probibly easy to use, so how do i save stuf to an XML file and how do i get stuff back from aqn XML file :D tnx guys

TrAcER

Go to the www.vb-world.com site. Then in the interaction menu, there is a codeback item. Click it.
Click on the C# section. I have submitted a way to save settings to the registry, and someone else has went behind me and modified my code to save settings to an xml file. If you can translate C# code to VB (shouldn't be that hard) then you will have it all.

man, seems like im makeing a mountin out of a mole hill here, there must be an easyer way, im learning vb.net now and c# afterwards, so i dont think this is too good for me, anyone else have a tutorial or a code snipit already in vb :D Gomen.. but this seems like alot of work, i could take the easyway out and save to the registy but i dont wanna, thats not good practice

You can just load the xml file into a dataset and work with it and save it back to an xml file.

VB Code:

Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        'read data from file
        Dim ds As New DataSet()
        'loda options xml file
        ds.ReadXml(Application.StartupPath & "\test.xml")
        Dim dr As DataRow
        dr = ds.Tables("Options").Rows(0)
        'put the options in local variables or whatever
        'i just stacked them in a string since this is just a demo
        'you could also just leave them in the dataset and use it as I have done here
        Dim Opts As String
        Opts = dr("Option1")
        Opts &= ControlChars.NewLine & dr("Option2")
        Opts &= ControlChars.NewLine & dr("Option3")
 
        'show the result
        MsgBox(Opts)
 
        'write to file
        dr("Option1") = "Item1"
        dr("Option2") = True
        dr("Option3") = 3.5
        ds.WriteXml(Application.StartupPath & "\test.xml")
 
    End Sub

And here is the xml file. Remember to put it in the bin folder or wherever the exe is.

Code:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Options>
        <Option1>Option1</Option1>
        <Option2>Another Option</Option2>
        <Option3>5.555</Option3>
</Options>

---

You could have different rows be different users and stuff like that as well.