Hello,
I am new to programming and I am trying to write a program that will let a user put in a user name and password which the program will check from information that is in a text file.... and can not figure it out.
I have the program working so that it will check one user name and password that is stored in a variable in the program but I want it to be able to use 1 of several users... can anyone help with this please? A starting point or something on that part of the code?
Thanks

You have not given enough information.
if you are using
 vb.net2003 or some other platform
do you have a data base with the program, if yes then what kind of adopter are you using




rSd

You'll need to look at the classes in the System.IO namespace to understand how to read text files.

You could use the File.ReadAllLines method which will read all the lines from the file into a string array. You can then process the lines as required to create a list of users.

Better still would be to store the users as XML so you can use the native XML handling features of .NET to deal with that. If you structure the XML correctly you can read it directly into a DataSet so you don't even have to deal with any of the file parsing yourself. The DataSet class can load itself directly from XML. Then you can work with a table of users as if it came from a database.

-Peter

I'm sorry I thought that with me posting in the VB.NET 2003 folder that it was understood that was what I was using. no there is no database... it has to all be in a text file .

How do I use a XML file? Sorry really new to all of this ... and am just trying to learn a bit from it ... thanks again in advance

What is your level of experience with:

- General programming
- XML
- VB.NET

It would help us to know what you are familiar with so we don't provide answers you already know. If you are generally unfamiliar with a particular topic, I'd suggest doing some googling to get the basics first.

-Peter