[Whazabazaa]

Hi Dream.in.coders,

I have a question: is there a way to store the values of TextBoxes/NumericUpDownboxes when you close a form.

Some additional info:

• Only the form closes, not the whole application.
  
• My.settings is not an option because I need 600 values to be stored.
  
• If the application closes, the data doesn't need to be stored any longer.

Is there anyone who has a solution?

Whaza

[rusoaica]

i see some posible ways of doing that... the most simple one would be to declare an array which holds the values and pass it to the main program, which remains opened, as you said... the next one, you could write a temporary text file on the disk which holds the data and delete it when the program closes... and the third one (but the less recomended one) would be to use registry keys for storing the data.. but that would be a little bit more complicated and dealing with registry requires a certain level of knowledge, or else you might do a great deal of damage to your programs or operating system.

[Whazabazaa]

rusoaica, on 16 August 2012 - 07:03 AM, said:

i see some posible ways of doing that... the most simple one would be to declare an array which holds the values and pass it to the main program, which remains opened, as you said... the next one, you could write a temporary text file on the disk which holds the data and delete it when the program closes... and the third one (but the less recomended one) would be to use registry keys for storing the data.. but that would be a little bit more complicated and dealing with registry requires a certain level of knowledge, or else you might do a great deal of damage to your programs or operating system.

Thank you,

I've got a question: how to declare to another form, I tried it yesterday but I couldn't get it...

[Ionut]

Here I think you should get closer to the following concepts :
Isolated storage for storing files and serialization.

Also, you can try another approach(if there is not enough data to blow up your resources):
List(of T) where T can be any class(even if one defined by you). This list can be a property of a singleton. Make sure that in this case you free the resources as soon as you finish processing data.

[rusoaica]

if the forms are in the same project, you simply declare a variable that is set to public... for example, if the program that is always open is form1 and the one that you want to retrieve data from is form2, you would declare in form1 a variable like this: Public Shared VariableName As String
in form2, you would pass values to it like this:
form1.VariableName = textbox1.text
the above line of code would assign to variable in form1 the text entered in a textbox in form2.
Else, if the forms are in different projects, you must use a namespace.

[Whazabazaa]

Thank you all very much!

I'm using the Public Shared method, easy and just good for my needs!

Whaza

[rusoaica]

im glad i could help you