Question

This is newbie VB question.
My son is learning VB and I am learning with him. We have RichEdit control application (non WPF), where we input text, formatting its Style (bold, italic, underline, etc.).
Our next task is to save the text together with its attributes into the file.
The question is: what type of serialization is preferred at this case?

Answer 1

Serialisation probably isn’t what you want in this instance.

I’d just save the RTF text directly to a file. e.g.

System.IO.File.WriteAllText("C:\\MyRTFDocument.rtf", rtftextBox.Rtf);

You can then open the file in any RTF editor (e.g. MS Word)

To read the file contents again

rtftextBox.Rtf = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("C:\\MyRTFDocument.rtf");

Hope this helps