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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:31:13+00:00

I am currently saving a .net ( c# ) usercontrol to the disk as

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I am currently saving a .net ( c# ) usercontrol to the disk as a XML file by saving each property as an element in the xml document. The file is used for later recreation of the controls at runtime. I am wondering if it is possible or better to save the control as a binary file. There would be many controls so I guess it would have to have a header section describing the location and length of each saved controls. Thoughts?

Brad

BTW this is a windows app

EDIT:

what I currently have inplace is a public member function that uses the propertyDescriptior class to itinerate through all the properties and create an xml document from that.

     PropertyDescriptorCollection pdc = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(this);          for (int i = 0; i <= pdc.Count - 1; i++)         {   pdc[i].Name      pdc[i].PropertyType     pdc[i].Category

}

I will look into creating the class Serializable – thanks

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  1. We had to do this for a data-driven application where a user could create persistable views. We did an XML version to start but moved to using BinaryFormatter and the ISerializable interface as this allows us to control exactly what gets persisted and which constructors to use. For the controls we actually persisted the CodeCompileUnit that the designer has created, but that means you have to actually use a designer to lay them out.

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