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Hi, <br />
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it seems (IMHO) a bit excessive to serialize the whole object graph of a form. Would it not be simpler to just save a series of boolean flags indicating whether a control is visible?
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Hi ,<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; Do you mean to say i have to create my own xml string for storing the control visibility details ?
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Hi, <br />
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not at all unless you'd prefer it. A simple mechanism would be to simply write data to a text/binary file in a specific order, then read it back in parsing it and setting up your controls as required. So for example if you had three controls A, B, C where B had it's Visible property set to false you would write something like this:<br />
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true, false, true<br />
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You could then read the whole lot in as a string, assuming you used text, then split on the comma giving you an array of strings. Then with each string parse it using bool.parse(arrayelement) and use the result of this to set the value in the control.
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Hi again, <br />
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i tried to serialize the control collection like you originally required however neither the ControlCollection or Control classes are marked as serializable - not possible
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Forced accept.<br />
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Computer101<br />
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Hi,<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I have C# windows application in which i want to xml serialize the properties of all the controls of a Form.Basically the idea is to allow the user to decide whether to hide a particular control or show the same.Once he decided to hide &nbsp;a particular control on the Form, then i want to serialize this and save it and then in next loading of the form deserialization of the same will happen and that control will be hidden.What is the best method for achieving this ?
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Hi,
      I have C# windows application in which i want to xml serialize the properties of all the controls of a Form.Basically the idea is to allow the user to decide whether to hide a particular control or show the same.Once he decided to hide  a particular control on the Form, then i want to serialize this and save it and then in next loading of the form deserialization of the same will happen and that control will be hidden.What is the best method for achieving this ?

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