"Tim Ferguson" <FergusonTG@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9773BA90EC501garbleme4455656@207.46.248.16...
>I know I am missing something conceptual here, probably pretty simple too.
>
> I am trying to make a user preferences dialog box.
>
> I have a Windows form with suitable textboxes on. In VB 2005 Express, I
> created a datasource from the My.Settings object, and dragged the "fields"
> from that datasource onto the textboxes. A bindingsource object appeared
> in
> the tray, and the properties of the textboxes show the correct links in
> the
> Bindings properties. So far so good.
>
> On loading the form, however, I get a bunch of empty textboxes instead of
> the values that are actually in the settings.
>
> I can't see any code anywhere to make the bindingsource actually go and
> get
> the data from the My.Settings object itself, nor how to make it send the
> altered values back. I don't know whether I need a data.datatable
> somewhere, but I'm not quite sure how to create it; or if it's just a
> MySettingsBindingSource.Bindings.Refresh (no, that doesn't seem to do
> anything).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Tim F
>

> search MSDN help for "ChangeAndPersistSettings" or "How to: Persist
> User Settings in Visual Basic"
>
> and "How to: Create Property Grids for User Settings in Visual Basic"
> you don't even need the textboxes!
>