As a very, very newbie, after a lot of learning, I feel like one that can't see forest becouse of trees. I was thinking to make a solution (for exercize purposes) that should recive some data and save it. So I can not remeber nor find in numerous and very large
books about programming in VisualBasic.net, do I need to make application that will enter that data into some (any) database, or is it possible that application records and keeps data for next use itself ( like in games "Save game" comand). If there's anybody
willing to bother with such a novice, please answer me.
Hi, Well, the data has to go somewhere. Because VB.NET is a programming language, it doesn't have any kind of automatic saving feature. It has plenty of support for saving data in lots of locations--a database, the registry, disk files of all kinds, somewhere
out on the network--but you have to write at least a little code to put it there. There are various components that can persist (means the same as save) state data in varous ways. That is generally not a good place for what is usually described as application
data, since many apps use a lot of data and process it intensely. Does this help? Or have I confused you more? Don
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Thank you You did not confuse me, on contrary. Only I am too little expirienced, so I have to ask you: My data are about school. That means Teacher's names, Subjects, Classes, Grades and so on. I wanted to make a sort of School administration but without database,
persuming that school does not have any DB server to use it .I am also thiking of using Access as db, but dont know how Access interacts with .NET. Can be data stored, used and updated from any file saved by aplication on HD.
Hi, It sounds from the data you describe that you certainly want to use a database. Access is very usable from .NET; you just have to be careful if the number of users starts growing above 10 or 20, depending on how the application accesses the data. Don
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