Application Settings

Settings in Visual Basic development are particular objects that provide a managed way of manipulating applications and user-level settings. For example, you could provide users with the ability to customize options in the user interface of your application. To save and read such customizations to and from disk, you can use .NET settings. My Project provides a tab named Settings that enables you to specify information at the application or user level (see Figure 3.2).

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FIGURE 3.2 The Settings tab in My Project.

As you can see in Figure 3.2, you can specify an identifier for each setting, a type (which you’ll understand better ...

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