Storing And Extracting Data From A Property Bag

To do anything involving a property bag, you need to first create a property bag object. The following code creates a new instance of a property bag, with the name objBag.


Not hard, huh? The property bag is part of the Visual Basic IDE so you don't even need a reference to it.
As with all instances of object, always remember to destroy the object, once you're done with it.


Doing so prevents those nasty memory leaks. But we don't want to destroy our property bag object just yet - we need to use it first!

Storing data in our property bag would be done like so:


Here we're storing the string "A string" in the property bag using the string "Str" to tag it. We use that tag when we will extract data from the property bag. Here is how to read the written value.


Notice that you would store the property bag data in incompatible varible type without getting a compile-error, but first getting an error at run-time.