Most Recent Document

[Suresh Kumaran]

How do you program in VB.NET to show the most recent used
document in a dropdown menu? I am referring to something
like in MS WORD or EXCEL where it shows the recent
document the user was working with.

Appreciate help.


Suresh

 

[Michael Lang]

How do you program in VB.NET to show the most recent used
document in a dropdown menu? I am referring to something
like in MS WORD or EXCEL where it shows the recent
document the user was working with.

Appreciate help.


Suresh

Most recent opened by your application I assume?

There is no "standard" framework way of accomplishing this. You must be
tracking it somewhere if it is being shown on your file menu. It is up to
you to persist that data somewhere.

You can save settings in the applications settings file, and xml file, the
registry, a database, or any other kind of file you want. Where would you
like it saved?

 

[Suresh Kumaran]

Michael,

Yes, its the most recent document my application opened.
What is the best way to store this information? If it is
any one of the method as you have described, how do I code
this? Do you have an example?

Thanks in advance

Suresh

 

[Suresh Kumaran]

Meh,
Thanks for you reply. Do you have a web link where I can
look at "SuperPad" example from VB6?

Appreciate help.

Suresh