How do i read and write ini file using vb.net?

Storing and loading user preferences
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xml is a better way to go in my humble opinion.

http://www.kjmsolutions.com/xmlsettings.htm

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If you are looking for the legacy approach... (pinvoke.net is a nice site
for finding these sorts of things).

Class Util
  Public Shared Function readINI(ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey As
String, ByVal sFile As String) As String
   Dim sb As StringBuilder
   Dim iRet As Integer

   sb = New StringBuilder(500)

   iRet = WinApi.GetPrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, "", sb,
sb.Capacity, sFile)

   Return sb.ToString
  End Function

  Public Shared Sub writeINI(ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey As String,
ByVal sFile As String, ByVal sValue As String)
   Dim bOk As Boolean

   bOk = WinApi.WritePrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sValue, sFile)
  End Sub
end class




Class WinApi
  <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
  Public Shared Function GetPrivateProfileString(ByVal lpAppName As String,
_
   ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
   ByVal lpDefault As String, _
   ByVal lpReturnedString As StringBuilder, _
   ByVal nSize As Integer, _
   ByVal lpFileName As String) As Integer
  End Function

  <DllImport("kernel32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
  Public Shared Function WritePrivateProfileString(ByVal lpAppName As
String, _
   ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
   ByVal lpString As String, _
   ByVal lpFileName As String) As Boolean
  End Function
End Class


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