Deserialize text file into datagrid

Thanks Vulpes,

I think that's pointed me in the right direction :)

Hi Vulpes,

I think I'm getting closer with reading the file, for now I'm just trying to read it to a message box but I get an error thrown on the below code?

Database temp = (Database)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(fileStream);

The error is:

System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException was unhandled
  Message="The input stream is not a valid binary format. The starting contents (in bytes) are: 20-01-20-20-20-FF-FF-FF-FF-01-20-20-20-20-20-20-20 ..."

Any ideas?

Thanks Vulpes,

So in theory I should populate that into dataset before filling a datagrid?

I'm not sure on that one, but below is the load code which outputs some activity onto a consol:

try
   {
    FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("c:\\DB.dat",FileMode.Open);
    BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
    Database temp = (Database)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(fileStream);
    this.database=temp.database;
    
    fileStream.Close();
    return true;
   }
   catch
   {
    database = new Hashtable();
    offlineMessages=new ArrayList();
    return false;
   }

Hi Vulpes,

Yes, and I'm only really interested in getting the Username & Title sections?

It save's those details into binary from textfields, below is the code that writes the dat file:

      FileStream fileStream =
     new FileStream("DB.dat",FileMode.Create);
    BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
    binaryFormatter.Serialize(fileStream,this); 
    fileStream.Close();
    return true;