Loading Graphics with LoadPicture

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Loading Graphics with LoadPicture

Before VB.NET, you put a graphic into a PictureBox with this code:

 Set Picture1.Picture = LoadPicture(''C:\Graphics\MyDog.jpg") 

Now in VB.NET, LoadPicture has been replaced with the following code:

 PictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("C:\Graphics\MyDog.jpg") 

Managing the Registry

Although .NET applications avoid using the Registry, you may still nonetheless need to access it. Where should a VB.NET programmer store passwords or other customization information (such as the user's choice of default font size) instead of the Registry that you've used for the past several years? Cookies? What goes around comes around. You can go back to using good old once-disgraced .INI files, or similar simple text files (though they can be deleted). They are, however, quick and easy, and using them avoids messing with the Registry.

In VB6 and before, you could use API commands such as RegQueryValueEx to query the Registry. Or you could employ the native VB Registry-related commands such as GetSetting, like this:

 Print GetSetting(appname := "MyProgram" , _  section := "Init" , key := "Locale" , default := "1") 

If you must use the Registry, here's how to access it from VB.NET. In VB.NET, you can query the Registry using the RegistryKey object. Type Listing 2.13 into a button's Click event.

LISTING 2.13: MANAGING THE REGISTRY

Private Sub Button1_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
 ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click


        Dim objGotValue As Object
        Dim objMainKey As RegistryKey = Registry .CurrentUser
        Dim objOpenedKey As RegistryKey 

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