My.Setting value is wrong aftar Application.Restart

Question

Dear All,

I'm using my.settings to save the load time of the solution. When my.settings.load_time value is changed and use my.settings.load_time.save() to save them. When I quit the application and manually start it again, the newly saved settings are used.

When I use either application.restart. The application will use the old values for my.settings.

My question is..
Is there a way to restart the application using either application.restart which will use the newly saved my.settings values?

Answer 1

Could it be that you do not save the settings before doing restart? I.e. need to call the save before the restart.

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Regards David R
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Answer 2

Do you save your settings before restarting?

My.settings.save

then

Application.restart

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Muscalu Ștefan ~~~~ Student

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Answer 3

Hmm. I was just musing since I can't see your code and it seems a likely possibility.

May be that on restart the settings are not re-read. Wonder what the help says? [It's not actually specified, but does say the environment is unchanged. That seems to imply it does nor re-read settings.] Perhaps you have to reload the settings after a restart if they have changed.

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Regards David R
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The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones.
Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. - Paul Graham.
Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble. - Alan Perlis
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute.

Answer 4

Thanks for all your replay..

I already use my.settings.save and my.settings.reload method, but it can't solve my problem yet..

this is my code :

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        My.Settings.Reload()
        TextBox1.Text = My.Settings.Teste
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        My.Settings.Teste = TextBox1.Text
        My.Settings.Save()
        MsgBox("Saved!")
    End Sub


    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        Application.Restart()
    End Sub

Answer 5

When you develop your application you have two sets of settings:

1)Debugger settings (applied to your application when you run it inside visual studio/visual basic express) 

2)Application settings(applied to your application when you run it outside visual studio/visual basic express)

When you run your application from your IDE(visual studio/visual basic express) and you restart it, that restarted instance of your application will not have the debugger attached and will have another set of settings.

When i used your code, i experienced what I've just explained, but not loss of settings each time the application is restarted...

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Muscalu Ștefan ~~~~ Student

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Answer 6

hi, muscalu stefan gabriel

jeez, i never think about it.

yes, it work for me when i run it outside Visual Studio.

thanks for your help, it already solved my problem :)