Saving data entered in a form on a Visual Basic .exe?

Neilyo That Blind KEK · #1 09-26-2009, 03:05 PM

Saving data entered in a form on a Visual Basic .exe?

I have made a Wage Calculator on Visual Basic, which calculates wages of a certain person, and I am going to soon add a feature that lets you add new people and their wages (overtime and normal) to a list, but I don't know how I can make it able to save once the application is closed, hence making this useless.

Anyone know how I can save it in the .exe?

master_of_cars11 · #2 09-26-2009, 03:09 PM

If you want to save a/multiple textbox's text then click on the textbox on the design and at Properties go to Data under that, you will see (ApplicationSettings), click on it and click on (PropertyBinding), click on the button with the ... on it. A window pops up, go to Text and create a new application setting.

LoverOfWine · #3 09-26-2009, 03:12 PM

You cannot save it within the exe itself because that is a binary file. If you try to modify the file it will be corrupted and may not execute. There are 2 approaches you can use.

1) save the information to a file in the current user's appdata folder
2) save the information into the registry, in the HK Current User\Software area under your application name.

You will have to save on close and read when the application loads.

seoasia · #4 02-01-2010, 04:02 PM

you just add the text box to add new entries for wages. and modifying the coding as according to your requirement.