Question

I’m developing a piece in VB.NET. Inside my primary form, I’m creating a new form to use as a dialog. I was wondering if there was a way to, upon the close of the new dialog, save it’s size settings for each user (probably in a file on their machine, through XML or something?)

Answer 1

you can save it to the settings file, and update it on the ‘onclosing’ event.

to make a setting goto Project Properties ->settings -> then make a setting like ‘dialogsize’ of type system.drawing.size.

then do this in your dialog form:

Public Sub New()     InitializeComponent() End Sub  Public Sub New(ByVal userSize As Size)     InitializeComponent()     Me.Size = userSize End Sub  Protected Overrides Sub OnClosing(ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs)     MyBase.OnClosing(e)     My.Settings.DialogSize = Me.Size     My.Settings.Save() End Sub 

do something like this to check and use the setting:

    Dim dlg As MyDialogWindow     If My.Settings.DialogSize.IsEmpty Then         dlg = New MyDialogWindow()     Else         dlg = New MyDialogWindow(My.Settings.DialogSize)     End If     dlg.ShowDialog()