Read From INI File

#Region "APICalls"
' standard API declarations for INI access
Private Declare Unicode Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringW" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpString As String, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Int32

Private Declare Unicode Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" _
Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringW" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, _
ByVal lpKeyName As String, ByVal lpDefault As String, _
ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal nSize As Int32, _
ByVal lpFileName As String) As Int32

#End Region

Private Function INIRead(ByVal INIPath As String, ByVal SectionName As String, ByVal KeyName As String, ByVal DefaultValue As String) As String

' primary version of call gets single value given all parameters
Dim n As Int32
Dim sData As String
sData = Space$(1024) ' allocate some room

n = GetPrivateProfileString(SectionName, KeyName, DefaultValue, sData, sData.Length, INIPath)

If n > 0 Then ' return whatever it gave us
INIRead = sData.Substring(0, n)
Else
INIRead = ""
End If
End Function