Hello all, hopefully someone has a recommendation that could help me, but I won't hold my breath...
So, I have created a VB 2010 project that works quite well and is also quite large (~9 forms, 15 datagridview objects not to mention hundreds of textboxes, checkboxes...you get the idea). The program ultimately just stores patient medical data on each form and then calls it/prints it out at the end to a (specially formatted) text file. End of story. My problem is that I would like to save/load these files (either in xml or some unique extension) so that JohnSmith.xml (or whatever) results in all forms being repopulated with whatever data they were saved as.
I attempted to find an answer online, but there seems to be lots of info on saving 'a' control, not a carte blanche "save all forms, data and control state" option--I probably don't have time to do this one by one.
Any help much appreciated! BTW, file size is not an issue--large, sloppy files that accomplish the task are A-OK.
So, I have created a VB 2010 project that works quite well and is also quite large (~9 forms, 15 datagridview objects not to mention hundreds of textboxes, checkboxes...you get the idea). The program ultimately just stores patient medical data on each form and then calls it/prints it out at the end to a (specially formatted) text file. End of story. My problem is that I would like to save/load these files (either in xml or some unique extension) so that JohnSmith.xml (or whatever) results in all forms being repopulated with whatever data they were saved as.
I attempted to find an answer online, but there seems to be lots of info on saving 'a' control, not a carte blanche "save all forms, data and control state" option--I probably don't have time to do this one by one.
Any help much appreciated! BTW, file size is not an issue--large, sloppy files that accomplish the task are A-OK.