Read data from ini file

nbryson · January 14th, 2004, 10:17 AM

Is there a way to read in data from an ini file for a windows application. I was able to do this in VB6.

Oops forgot to say I need this for VB.NET.

xgbnow · January 14th, 2004, 10:21 AM

I think I missed something. What are you programming in VBA, VB.NET ???

Larry Asher

nbryson · January 14th, 2004, 10:23 AM

Yes its VB.NET Larry. Sorry I forgot to post that on original message, which i've edited now.

Thanks

Jeff Mason · January 14th, 2004, 10:55 AM

This post probably belongs in the one of the .NET forums...

.INI files are not used in the .NET world; instead, they are replaced by .config files, which are XML documents which (among other things) contain key/value pairs. The System.Configuration namespace has classes which allow you to read (but not easily write) them.

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

nbryson · January 15th, 2004, 09:16 AM

Thanks Jeff

Works well

DeborahStoddard · April 2nd, 2015, 05:14 AM

Even though XML based .config files are a preferred way, sometimes we don't have a choice. In that case you can use this VB.NET library that can read INI file's content and if needed update it as well.
It can also provide you a way to retrieve and use INI data in strongly typed manner, for example:

Code:

Dim ini As New IniFile()
ini.Load("Sample.ini")

Dim sampleInt As Integer
ini.Sections(0).Keys("Sample Number").TryParseValue(sampleInt)

Dim sampleDate As DateTime
ini.Sections(0).Keys("Sample Date").TryParseValue(sampleDate)