Saving data and then reading the data

Question

Hi,

I'm working on an app and i want to store a few things:

• a variable ( number )
• a string ( saying that the button is enabled "true" or "false")

I want this data to save and when the user closes the app and then re-opens it, I want the data back.
Ive searched the web, but all of the procedures i found where only temporary.

Important : this is being coded in Visual basic

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi Ben132546,

This documentation might be a good thing for you: Quickstart: Local app data (Windows Store apps using C#/VB/C++ and XAML) 

Instead of temporary application data, local application data enables you to save the data and use it when the next time open the app. 

--James

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Answer 2

If it is mostly stuff like "Window Positions" (wich is minor) or Connection Strings (wich rarely changed), the User and Application settings are a good place to look too:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397750.aspx

They are stored someplaces that make sense in XML format, but overall you do not need to worry where they are saved - they just are.

When picking a place to store information it is important to remmember that you are never guaranteed to have writeaccess to the programm folder (since XP) and that the Paths to User AppData and All Users AppData might change, so always ask windows where they are.

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