Saving objects to a collection for later retrieval

[eljainc]

Hi I'm looking for general code examples to save a form or the
components of a form for later retrieval.

For example, lets say at runtime some controls (listview, panel,
labels) were placed onto a form.
Is there a way to save these items, their general properties (position
on the form or parent control) and to reload them later?

I'm gathering it would be a collection or container that of some sort.

Thanks.
Mike McWhinney

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Mike,

Unfortunately, for windows controls, there is no easy way to do this.
Normally, you would use serialization for this, but the controls do not
support serialization.

You could ^try^ and use the XmlSerializer class to serialize the
instances, since it works by only serializing the public write properties of
a class. It might give you what you want.

Hope this helps.