Save/Load full form

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I am writing a program for a friend in my free time to use to document students for physical therapy and occupational therapy. I'm using visual basic and have created a basic form so far, but realized I'm not sure how to save/load the information that will be input.

This is what the form looks like so far (basic I know) Form

I do not have access to sql or ms access at the moment so I'm hoping to be able to save all the information to a txt document or xml file and be able to read and update it at a future time. Eventually I will have multiple forms all associated with one student and would like to save them all together.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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Mousa Alfhaily Mousa Alfhaily · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-16T16:47:12

You can use this method, it will work perfect but the data will be stored in a xml file and it's editable :

First you go to your project properties :

Then you go the the settings tab :

And there you add all the variables that you need to store data in :

So to save the data you can use the Form_Closing event :

Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender As Object, e As FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
   My.Settings.StudentName = StudentNameTextBox.Text
   '.......
   '....
   'And you do that for all the information that you need to store.
End Sub

To Load the data when the form loads, just revers the storing way :

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
     StudentNameTextBox.Text = My.Settings.StudentName
   '.......
   '....
   'And you do that for all the information that you need to load.
End Sub

Hope that will be useful to you :)

Save/Load full form

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