Hi All,

Is there a simple way in VB.NET to read and write to a .ini file?  In old
VB6 I would use the following, should I just continue with this or has .NET
made it easier?

Thanks,
Steve

Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias
"GetPrivateProfileStringA" _
        (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As Any, _
         ByVal lpDefault As String, ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal
nSize As Long, _
         ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

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

My ini file was in the windows directory, so I got the path to System32 and
replaced System32 with my filename because Windows is the parent for it.

Dim stmReader As StreamReader = New
FileInfo(System.Environment.SystemDirectory.Replace("System32",
"ditdrn.INI")).OpenText

Dim sINI As String = stmReader.ReadToEnd

This is a different sample but it will give you an idea on how to write

Dim myFileStream As New System.IO.FileStream(sDitPath + "SatPara.dat",
System.IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate, System.IO.FileAccess.Write,
System.IO.FileShare.None)
Dim myWriter As New System.IO.StreamWriter(myFileStream)
For i = 0 To sSatPara.GetUpperBound(0)
myWriter.WriteLine(sSatPara(i))

Next

myWriter.Close()
myFileStream.Close()

Ken Simmons