Exporting My.Settings to file

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I am trying to find a way to take the MANY settings I have stored in the My.Settings area of VB.Net and export them to a file that I can Import again when needed.

I am using them to store customer data that is on a shared file, so ADO is out.

Thanks in advance for any help!!!!

Posted 30-Nov-11 10:45am

RWLLCCoder

Updated 30-Nov-11 14:45pm

Eduard Lu

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-11-30T14:55:00

I prefer using Data Contract. Please see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733127.aspx[^].

Yes, I know about Application Settings. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973902.aspx[^].

Yes, you can use the approach described in the article referenced above.

I still thing Data Contract is more flexible and non-intrusive. It can be used with any objects graphs generated based on any arbitrary set of data classes. The graph can even be non-hierarchical. Also, the approach is universal and extremely easy to use. Another important thing is the provision for backward compatibility when the software goes through evolution.

Please see my past articles advocating Data Contract:
How can I utilize XML File streamwriter and reader in my form application?[^],
Creating property files...[^],
deseralize a json string array[^].

—SA