Question

I have been working on an application which allows the user to make a label template for printing purposes by adding label controls to a panel(which I use as a container). I have reached the point where I need to be able to save the template to a file which I can load into memory later for printing. Since the form is not serializable does anyone have suggestions on how I can save the form or container(with added label controls) to a file that can be reused later?

Thanks.

Answer 1

1. Create a struct that contains enough information (and no more) about each Label that you can reconstitute the Label from it.

2. Write a method that takes a List<MyStruct> and populates a Panel from your structs.

3. Write methods to serialize and deserialize this list.

4. Encapsulate the whole thing in a class.