Applications can be so forgetful. You would think that if you used your application to browse to a folder and open a file, it would start out in that same folder the next time you wanted to open a file. You would think that if you resize a form, the next time that form opens it would automatically default to the previous size and location. And what about Tools, Options? There should be an easy way to let the user configure the application, and have the application remember those configuration settings.
It turns out that the .NET framework has great facilities for storing and retrieving structured information from disk, allowing you to easily add configuration functionality to VB.NET or even existing VB6 applications.
In this article, you will learn how to add configuration management to an application. Included are sample VB6 and VB.NET applications that use the configuration management functionality.
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