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For my A2 Computing project I have created a game using Visual Basic. For the leaderboard section, I have used the My.Settings feature to store the scores when the game closes, but only one or two actually save. My teacher doesn't know and I can't find anything helpful after a google search of the problem

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You can force a save of the My.Settings object using My.Settings.Save(), however I'd suggest you look into writing a file to disk and using that to store your high scores. It's much better and it's a good opportunity to teach yourself about File I/O.

Here's a good tutorial on how to do that via MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6ka1wd3w(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=vb#code-snippet-1

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Thanks for the help! –  Joe Apr 2 at 9:02
    
No problem, but as written above by @ArthurChamz, this is a more technical question (as opposed to a more abstract one about programming in general) that really belongs on Stack Overflow. In the future if you have another question along these lines, people will be happy to help over there. Good luck on your learning :) –  xiy Apr 3 at 10:43

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