Question

In my WPF application I have a form presented to the user, the user fills out forms which is about, e.g. A location. These form entries are then used to construct a object from a custom class and on the next view details about the location entered are displayed.

What I need is a method to be able to save the dynamically created object so that when the application is closed and reopened i can display the name property of previously entered objects so that the user can reopen the data from previously entered objects.

Thinking I can serialize them into an .osl file, but that only saves the public values.
So I’m thinking there must be a much simpler way

Any help appreciated!

Answer 1

Read about .Net Serialization.

 [Serializable]
    class Person
    {
        public int Age { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
    [Serializable]
    class Address
    {
        public string City { get; set; }
    }



static public void SerializeToXML(Person p, Address add)
        {
            IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(@"C:\data.xml", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
            {
                formatter.Serialize(stream, p);
                formatter.Serialize(stream, add);
            }
        }
        static void DeserializeFromXML()
        {
            IFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(@"C:\data.xml", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.None))
            {

                Person p = (Person)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
                Address add = (Address)formatter.Deserialize(stream);
            }
        }

Use:

Person p = new Person { Age = 23, Name = "Ram" };
            Address add = new Address { City = "Khurja,India" };
            SerializeToXML(p, add);
            DeserializeFromXML();

This way you can serialize/deserialize anything you want.