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Application Configuration FIle Visual Studio 2005

Through the application configaration file You can easily save values to later usage.
you can create a application configuration file from

project > Add New Item (Ctrl + Shift + A)

example

You want to add get string from config file

Create a Config file using above step.
after that insert following code to the config file. its a XML file.


appsettings
add key="DatabasePath" value="c:\\projects\data\spider.mdb"
add key="SupportEmail" value="webmaster-1@dotnetspider.com"
appsettings
configuration


in the coding add following

Dim app As New System.Configuration.AppSettingsReader
Dim s As String
s = app.GetValue("DatabasePath", Type.GetType("System.String"))
MessageBox.Show(s)

its very easy when you are handling databases.
you can store database connection string in that config for later reusabilty.

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