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INI Files

Hi Y'all

This probably a century old question in this NG for the newborn .NET,
but still I miss them.

Is there a way to use INI files from VB.NET. I know there are
alternate solutions such as XMLs, but due to legacy support, I would
like to try to read and write into INI files. I reckon that through
the use of file functions I can do this, but was more thinking about
some readymix kinda solution, maybe through API calls, but which?

Thanx.
Nov 20 '05 #1
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* Pepi Tonas <pe*******@hotmail.com> scripsit:
This probably a century old question in this NG for the newborn .NET,
but still I miss them.

Is there a way to use INI files from VB.NET. I know there are
alternate solutions such as XMLs, but due to legacy support, I would
like to try to read and write into INI files. I reckon that through
the use of file functions I can do this, but was more thinking about
some readymix kinda solution, maybe through API calls, but which?


<http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=6>

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>
Nov 20 '05 #2
RDI
'if the key currently is null return "DefaultValue"
sGetINI(sINIFile, "SectionName", "KeyName, "DefaultValue")

sWriteINI(sINIFile, "SectionName", "KeyName, "Vaule")

Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias _
"WritePrivateProfileStringA" _
(ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
ByVal lpString As String, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Integer

'Store the location of the INI file
Public Shared Function sGetINI(ByVal sINIFile As String, ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey _
As String, ByVal sDefault As String) As String
Dim sTemp As String = Space(255)
Dim nLength As Integer

nLength = GetPrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sDefault, sTemp, _
255, sINIFile)
Return sTemp.Substring(0, nLength)
End Function

Public Shared Sub writeINI(ByVal sINIFile As String, ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey _
As String, ByVal sValue As String)
'Remove CR/LF characters
sValue = sValue.Replace(vbCr, vbNullChar)
sValue = sValue.Replace(vbLf, vbNullChar)
'Write information to INI file
WritePrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sValue, sINIFile)
End Sub

--

RDI

(remove the exclamation from the email address)

"Pepi Tonas" <pe*******@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:f6********************************@4ax.com...
Hi Y'all

This probably a century old question in this NG for the newborn .NET,
but still I miss them.

Is there a way to use INI files from VB.NET. I know there are
alternate solutions such as XMLs, but due to legacy support, I would
like to try to read and write into INI files. I reckon that through
the use of file functions I can do this, but was more thinking about
some readymix kinda solution, maybe through API calls, but which?

Thanx.

Nov 20 '05 #3
One million thanks...
On 17 Dec 2003 23:26:13 +0100, hi***************@gmx.at (Herfried K.
Wagner [MVP]) wrote:
* Pepi Tonas <pe*******@hotmail.com> scripsit:
This probably a century old question in this NG for the newborn .NET,
but still I miss them.

Is there a way to use INI files from VB.NET. I know there are
alternate solutions such as XMLs, but due to legacy support, I would
like to try to read and write into INI files. I reckon that through
the use of file functions I can do this, but was more thinking about
some readymix kinda solution, maybe through API calls, but which?


<http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=6>


Nov 20 '05 #4
One million thanks...

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:23:58 -0500, "RDI" <RDI!@!WriteMe.com> wrote:
'if the key currently is null return "DefaultValue"
sGetINI(sINIFile, "SectionName", "KeyName, "DefaultValue")

sWriteINI(sINIFile, "SectionName", "KeyName, "Vaule")

Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias _
"WritePrivateProfileStringA" _
(ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, _
ByVal lpString As String, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Integer

'Store the location of the INI file
Public Shared Function sGetINI(ByVal sINIFile As String, ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey _
As String, ByVal sDefault As String) As String
Dim sTemp As String = Space(255)
Dim nLength As Integer

nLength = GetPrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sDefault, sTemp, _
255, sINIFile)
Return sTemp.Substring(0, nLength)
End Function

Public Shared Sub writeINI(ByVal sINIFile As String, ByVal sSection As String, ByVal sKey _
As String, ByVal sValue As String)
'Remove CR/LF characters
sValue = sValue.Replace(vbCr, vbNullChar)
sValue = sValue.Replace(vbLf, vbNullChar)
'Write information to INI file
WritePrivateProfileString(sSection, sKey, sValue, sINIFile)
End Sub


Nov 20 '05 #5

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