My.Settings object set setting by name?

[Dachshund Digital]

I know there must be a way to do this... in .NET 2.0?

I have a situation where I know the name of the setting, and want to
pass it into a function, and set or get the corresponding setting.

The following is find, but a pain if you have lots of settings to do in
one go...

My.Setting.Dach shund=1000
Dim theSetting As Integer=My.Sett ing.Dachshund

Looking for some thing like...

Sub SetSetting(ByVa l theName As String, ByVal theValue As Object)

My.Setting(theN ame) = theValue

End Sub

Function GetSetting(ByVa l theName As String) As Object

Return (My.Settings(th eName))

End Function

I figure i could call My.Setting.<Met hod>? Via Invoke by name? But I
am not a Invoke guru?

Any help greatly desired, Thanks

[david]

On 2006-05-06, Dachshund Digital <Sc*******@adel phia.net> wrote:

I know there must be a way to do this... in .NET 2.0?

I have a situation where I know the name of the setting, and want to
pass it into a function, and set or get the corresponding setting.

The following is find, but a pain if you have lots of settings to do in
one go...

My.Setting.Dach shund=1000
Dim theSetting As Integer=My.Sett ing.Dachshund

Looking for some thing like...

Sub SetSetting(ByVa l theName As String, ByVal theValue As Object)

My.Setting(theN ame) = theValue
This is evil, but you could always do something like

My.MySettingsPr operty.Settings .Item(theName) = value
Rather than using undocumented names though, you'd probably be better
off saving a hashtable or NameValueCollec tion in My.Settings, then
accessing its members normally.

End Sub

Function GetSetting(ByVa l theName As String) As Object

Return (My.Settings(th eName))

End Function

I figure i could call My.Setting.<Met hod>? Via Invoke by name? But I
am not a Invoke guru?

Any help greatly desired, Thanks