Simple way to save and load data Visual Basic

Question

I was wondering what is the easiest way to save and load data through different forms in vb. I just want to save 3 textbox.text that a user saves and be able to load it on a different form.

Answer 1

The simplest option would be to save them to a simple delimited text file. For instance, this would save the values in a pipe-delimited file:

File.WriteAllText("C:\Data.txt", String.Join("|", new String() {TextBox1.Text, TextBox2.Text, TextBox3.Text}))

And this would read it in:

Dim values() as String = File.ReadAllText("C:\Data.txt").Split("|"c)
TextBox1.Text = values(0)
TextBox2.Text = values(1)
TextBox3.Text = values(2)

However, it's not smart to save to a file in the root directory. The safest thing would be to store it in a file in Isolated Storage. Also, it would be even better to store it in XML. This could be easily done with serialization.