aboout seralization

coven

hello sorry about my english I am tryng to do the following I have a Form with a Panel on with controls on the Panel. I want to serialize (Bin or XML, i don't mind) the Panel with its children and the children of the children (for containers)... When I try to do it VS.NET tells me it is impossible because it has not the serializable attritbute. I come from Delphi and it is a thing i do very often with Components . is there a very easy solution or do I have to override all the controls (that come from marshalbyref and so that should be serailizable)? I have succeded in implementing ISerialize on a textbox, but it is a very heavy solution. i really don't know how to start solving my problem. thanx in advance!

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s_bollerud22y ago
But all the examples I find only contains simple classes that doesn't inherit from any other classes. My class inherits CheckBox, and I get the error that sais that CheckBox is not serializable. If you know of any GOOD examples, a link would be very nice.
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ssswamii22y ago
Code your class to implement the System.Runtime.Serialization.ISerializable interface. See MSDN for a few good examples on how to do this.
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s_bollerud22y ago
I got kind of the same question. I want to serialize a class that inherit from CheckBox. Any suggestions.
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Tanvir Huda22y ago
i think Panel is not a serializable class. To make it serializable u have to override its base methods which is not an easy task. However, u can make the class that uses the panel by implementing the Serializable interface. Why dont u use an object that holds the data of the panels (like dataset) and serialize it.
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