Add a new item to your component and select "Application configuration".
Edit this file so it looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="Database1" value="my first database"/>
<add key="Database2" value="my second database"/>
<add key="SomeOtherSetting" value="my other stuff"/>
</appSettings>
</configuration>
Add these imports
Imports System.Configuration
Imports System.Collections.Specialized
And use code like this
Dim sDatabaseCollection As NameValueCollection =
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings()
Dim sDatabase As String
For Each sDatabase In sDatabaseCollection.AllKeys
If sDatabase.StartsWith("Database") Then
MessageBox.Show(sDatabaseCollection(sDatabase))
End If
Next
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Hi,
I am building an appliaction that will do some processing on specified
databases. I would like to specify in a configuration file what databases
to process.There is not a fixed number of databases so the number can vary.
Ideal (If i just could figure out how to do this) would be if i could get
a string array containing my values from the configuration file that I could
loop through.
Any suggestions on how to do this ?
Regards
Niclas Lindblom