[RESOLVED] Remembering Settings

[Brinith]

How do you make a program remember settings. For example, first it prompts you for your name, then when you close out of it and start it again, it will display your name?

[jmcilhinney]

Open the Settings page of the project properties and add a setting of the appropriate type with the appropriate name. You can then access that setting in code via the so-named property of My.Settings. Settings are automatically saved to the user config file at shutdown and loaded at startup. These settings are user-specific, so if you log into Windows as a different user then your app will have a different set of settings.

[Niya]

Use the Settings tab of project properties to create a setting and you can access it from code like:-

Dim uname As String = My.Settings.UserName

The above is how you would access a setting named UserName created in the Settings tab.

[Brinith]

I see, but to start it up, should it be like this?

Name= My.Settings.Username
Label1.Text = Name

Sorry I am pretty much a complete beginner at programmer so Im probably way off.

[jmcilhinney]

I see, but to start it up, should it be like this?

Name= My.Settings.Username
Label1.Text = Name

Sorry I am pretty much a complete beginner at programmer so Im probably way off.

When you tried that, did it work?

[Brinith]

Sorry I don't have my computer with me so I can't check right now.

[Niya]

I see, but to start it up, should it be like this?

Name= My.Settings.Username
Label1.Text = Name

Sorry I am pretty much a complete beginner at programmer so Im probably way off.

Yep.....or make it simpler:-

Label1.Text = My.Settings.Username

[Brinith]

I see thanks for all your help guys

[Brinith]

Open the Settings page of the project properties and add a setting of the appropriate type with the appropriate name. You can then access that setting in code via the so-named property of My.Settings. Settings are automatically saved to the user config file at shutdown and loaded at startup. These settings are user-specific, so if you log into Windows as a different user then your app will have a different set of settings.

Well it's for a school project so I don't think that should be a problem.