Question

The ToolStripManager is hopelessly broken. LoadSettings doesn’t do a thing…and I’m evidently not the only one with this problem:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winforms/thread/656f5332-610d-42c3-ae2d-0ffb84a74b34/

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=128042

So…anyone have a workaround? The one posted in that thread just moved all the toolbars to the bottom of the window.

Answer 1

Here is my solution:

Declare this struct to store the settings of a toolbar:

[Serializable] public struct ToolStripSettings {     public bool Visible;     public Point Location; } 

Code to save

// save toolbar settings List<ToolStripSettings> toolSettings = new List<ToolStripSettings>(); // mToolbars is initialized in the constructor to contain all of your toolbar members // you could also probably populate it with reflection foreach (ToolStrip ts in mToolbars) {     ToolStripSettings tss = new ToolStripSettings();     tss.Visible = ts.Visible;     tss.Location = ts.Location;     toolSettings.Add(tss); } // serialize the toolSettings list wherever you keep the  // rest of your user-specific settings 

Code to restore

// Load toolstrip settings, if any if (/*deserialized storage location*/ != null) {     for (int i = 0; i < mToolbars.Length; i++)     {         mToolbars[i].Visible = /*deserialized storage location*/[i].Visible;         mToolbars[i].Location = /*deserialized storage location*/[i].Location;     } }