[dba-VB] VB.Net XML - store form defaults

Shamil,

Funny you should mention that.  I was working on just such a class earlier
this afternoon - from a book called Beginning Visual Basic .NET from Wrox.
That book does not mention binding the form to the class though.  It
actually reads / writes the values out of the controls.  I like the
"binding" idea.  Now all I have to do is figure out how to do that. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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Salakhetdinov
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VB.Net XML - store form defaults

Hello John,

It's rather easy on .NET (there could be dozen ways to do that) - simplest
IMO and the most appropriate for you because you are a bounder and you like
custom classes :) :

- create custom class preferably with public setters and getters for the
properties values you use;
- bind your form to this custom class;
- run you application and edit bound to your custom class form fields'
values;
- use System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer and TextWriter/StreamWriter and
TextReader/StreamReader to save/restore (serialize to/desterilize from)
defaults to/from text(xml) file...
- next time you start your app your class static method will read serialized
XML, will desterilize it into class instance and will bind your form to the
properties of this class instance...


That's it. Should be less than 10 lines of code to serialize/desterilize
defaults to/from xml file...

--
Shamil