Favorites in webbrowser help!!???

Favorites in webbrowser help!!???

• rolandpish

  everything, the entire solution/project zipped up and emailed to me (email addy in profile)
  
  

• Raoul_BennetH

  well what all code do you need
  

• Cannan

  read through the links I supplied. Even more examples about xml serialization:

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bdxxw552.aspx

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dsh84875.aspx

  basically, it helps us to store objects into a file which we can restore back easily instead of having to write down each line of links into a text file then reading them back again - Xml Serialization does this for us with the ability to store objects and its properties.

  It will be hard to grasp but its worth it and you would gain more knowledge!

  
  
  

• David Luu

  send over the code and ill see what I can do, email address in profile and ill also be sure to post here the solution (basically converting the links supplied into VB.NET)
  
  

• vbjunkie

  ok yea good point on that one

  yea i will zipp it up and send it then

  
  

• SeanC

  it's because you need some way of storing the values/favourites - your application needs to have this functionality. Either save it to an app settings configuration file or maybe use another method, such as serializing to xml file and then deserialize when your app is going to be starting up again to restore those values.

  There have been a few posts about this, and I have made one in C# but not VB.NET

  Here is an example you could follow about how to create a favorites object and serialize/deserialize the object - basically change it to your needs.

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=743715&SiteID=1

  even though this is C#, you maybe able to figure out what's going on or follow the logic:

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=801237&SiteID=1

  I hope this gets you started, but DO post back if you have questions ;-)

  
  
  

• John Dunn

  well because this is a community and in order to help you some things needed to be seen in its full and besides I wouldn't want the program if I could create my own :-) but if you don't want to then that's fine but would suggest following the links supplied
  
  

• ahmad.nazmi

  um yea i kinda get what you mean by the xml thing but still dont understand how i would make the code for it

  sorry if im asking all the beginner questions but i just started this and its my very first program

  
  

• yhong

  ok i sent it

  its a pretty basic program

  
  

• wirol

  well i figured it would be the perfect type of program for my first one

  well i stiill havnt figured out how to get them to save

  and its making me mad

  im not the reading type i need to be showed sometimes

  so if this is not to much to ask could someone make the code for me

  i posted what im using to access the urls and what im adding them with but i just cant doit alone

  
  

• War_Child

  I've just zipped off the solution to the OP. Here is the code converted from C# to VB.NET from the links supplied earlier. Please also follow them as they tell you what other events you should implement for the toolstripmenuitems.

  Imports System.Xml Imports System.Xml.Serialization Imports System.IO Imports System.Collections Imports System.Collections.Generic Public Class Favourite Private theDisplayName As String = String.Empty Private theLink As String = String.Empty Private theFavourites As New List(Of Favourite) Public ReadOnly Property TheFavouriteCollection() As List(Of Favourite) Get Return Me.theFavourites End Get End Property Public Property TheURL() As String Get Return Me.theLink End Get Set(ByVal value As String) Me.theLink = value End Set End Property Public Property TheUrlDescription() As String Get Return Me.theDisplayName End Get Set(ByVal value As String) Me.theDisplayName = value End Set End Property Public Sub New(ByVal displayName As String, ByVal url As String) Me.theDisplayName = displayName Me.theLink = url End Sub Public Sub New() End Sub Public Overloads Sub Favourite() End Sub Public Sub DoAddFavourite(ByVal theNewFav As Favourite) Me.theFavourites.Add(theNewFav) End Sub Public Shared Function DoLoadFavourites() As Favourite If File.Exists(Application.StartupPath & "\theFavouritesSaved.xml") Then Dim theTypes(0) As Type theTypes(0) = GetType(List(Of Favourite)) Try Dim theDeSerializer As New XmlSerializer(GetType(Favourite), theTypes) Dim theReader As New StreamReader(Application.StartupPath & "\theFavouritesSaved.xml") Dim theFavourites As Favourite = theDeSerializer.Deserialize(theReader) theReader.Close() Return theFavourites Catch ex As Exception Return Nothing End Try End If End Function Public Function DoSaveFavourites() As Boolean Dim theTypes(0) As Type theTypes(0) = GetType(List(Of Favourite)) Try Dim theSerializer As New XmlSerializer(GetType(Favourite), theTypes) Dim theWriter As New StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath & "\theFavouritesSaved.xml") theSerializer.Serialize(theWriter, Me) theWriter.Close() Return True Catch ex As Exception Return False End Try End Function End Class

  In your main form, declare globally:

  private theFavourites as Favourites()

  form_load, we want to load the favourites:

  If Me.theFavourites Is Nothing = True Then Me.theFavourites = New Favourite() End If Me.theFavourites.TheFavouriteCollection.Clear() FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items.Clear() Me.theFavourites = Favourite.DoLoadFavourites() If Me.theFavourites Is Nothing = False Then For Each currentFav As Favourite In Me.theFavourites.TheFavouriteCollection Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items.Add(currentFav.TheUrlDescription) Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items(Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items.Count - 1).ToolTipText = currentFav.TheURL Next End If

  Whenever we add a new favourite:

  Dim theNewFav As New Favourite("Description", "URL") If Me.theFavourites Is Nothing Then Me.theFavourites = New Favourite() End If Me.theFavourites.DoAddFavourite(theNewFav) Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items.Add(theNewFav.TheUrlDescription) Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items(Me.FavToolStripMenuItem.DropDown.Items.Count - 1).ToolTipText = theNewFav.TheURL If Me.theFavourites.DoSaveFavourites() = False Then MessageBox.Show("Could not save favourites") End If

  When we want to save the entire favourites:

  If Me.theFavourites.DoSaveFavourites() = False Then MessageBox.Show("Could not save favourites") End If

  The whole idea is to make an object called favourites with 2 properties:

• The description (display name)

• the url to navigate to

  so when we add a favourite, we create a new fav object, set its properties, then add it to the favourites collection and serialize it (store it to file)

  When we load the favourites, we deserialize it, restoring back the favourites saved from last time, back into memory