How to save checkbox value in xml using vb.net - vb.net

Question

I know, maybe this is a question that comes up quite often, but I haven't been able to work on it.
How can I save this checkbox values in an XML file using VB.Net ?
Private Sub ChkVul_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ChkVul.Click
If ChkVul.Checked = True Then
Me.pnlInsert.Visible = True
Else
Me.pnlInsert.Visible = False
End If
End Sub

Answer 1

Before I provide you with an answer, I wanted to recommend a slight code change. Since you are setting the Boolean value of pnlInsert.Visible based on a condition, which itself returns a Boolean value, simply get rid of the conditional check in the first place:
pnlInsert.Visible = ChkVul.Checked
Now to your question. What you are essentially asking is how to write a value to an XML file. Something to consider is that XML is only a markup language. At the end of the day, an XML file is simply a file that contains formatted text.
If you do not already have an XML file to read from, simply create a new instance of a XDocument (documentation). If you do have an XML file, then create a new instance of a XDocument by calling the static XDocument.Load method (documentation). Here is a function that takes in a file location and attempts to load a XDocument, if it is unable to then it returns a blank XDocument with a single <root> element:
Private Function LoadOrCreateXml(filename As String) As XDocument
Dim document = New XDocument()
document.Add(New XElement("root"))
Try
If (Not String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(filename) AndAlso IO.File.Exists(filename)) Then
document = XDocument.Load(filename)
End If
Catch ex As Exception
' for the sake of this example, just silently fail
End Try
Return document
End Function
Now that you have an XDocument, it is just a matter of writing the value. You did not provide any details as to where the value should go or what the tag name should be, so I am going to assume that it should be a child of the <root /> element and the value would look something like this: <ChkVul>true/false</ChkVul>.
To do this, we will need to get the <root /> element by calling the Element method (documentation) on the XDocument to get the element and then call the Add method (documentation) on the resulting XElement to add our node with the value:
Dim document = LoadOrCreateXml("my-xml-file.txt")
document.Element("root").Add(New XElement("ChkVul", ChkVul.Checked))
The final piece of all this is to write the in-memory XDocument back to the file. You can leverage the XDocument.Save method (documentation):
Dim filename = "my-xml-file.txt"
Dim document = LoadOrCreateXml(filename)
document.Element("root").Add(New XElement("ChkVul", ChkVul.Checked))
document.Save(filename)

Answer 2

Maybe this is what you have in mind. I tested this with other controls,
Public Class Form1
Private SavePath As String = IO.Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop),
"MyControls.xml") 'some valid path <-----------<<<
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender As Object, e As FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
SaveCheckedState(ChkVul, "ChkVul", True)
End Sub
Private Sub Form1_Shown(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
If IO.File.Exists(SavePath) Then
Try
MyControls = XElement.Load(SavePath)
For Each el As XElement In MyControls.Elements
Dim ctrl() As Control = Me.Controls.Find(el.#name, True)
If ctrl.Length > 0 Then
Dim chkd As System.Reflection.PropertyInfo = ctrl(0).GetType().GetProperty("Checked")
Dim chkdV As Boolean = Boolean.Parse(el.#checked)
chkd.SetValue(ctrl(0), chkdV)
End If
Next
Catch ex As Exception
'todo
End Try
End If
End Sub
Private Sub ChkVul_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles ChkVul.CheckedChanged
If ChkVul.Checked Then
Me.pnlInsert.Visible = True
Else
Me.pnlInsert.Visible = False
End If
SaveCheckedState(ChkVul, "ChkVul")
End Sub
Private Sub RadioButton1_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles RadioButton1.CheckedChanged
SaveCheckedState(RadioButton1, "RadioButton1")
End Sub
Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckedChanged
SaveCheckedState(CheckBox1, "CheckBox1")
End Sub
Private MyControls As XElement = <controls>
</controls>
Private Sub SaveCheckedState(Ctrl As Control,
Name As String,
Optional Save As Boolean = False)
If Ctrl.GetType().GetProperty("Checked") IsNot Nothing Then
Dim chkd As System.Reflection.PropertyInfo = Ctrl.GetType().GetProperty("Checked")
Dim chkdV As Boolean = CBool(chkd.GetValue(Ctrl))
Dim ie As IEnumerable(Of XElement)
ie = From el In MyControls.Elements
Where el.#name = Ctrl.Name
Select el Take 1
Dim thisXML As XElement
If ie.Count = 0 Then
thisXML = <ctrl name=<%= Name %>></ctrl>
MyControls.Add(thisXML)
Else
thisXML = ie(0)
End If
thisXML.#checked = chkdV.ToString
End If
If Save Then
Try
MyControls.Save(SavePath)
Catch ex As Exception
'todo
' Stop
End Try
End If
End Sub
End Class