Object Serializatiion

Apologies for the duplicate posting, I could not find the first one!

 

I would apreciate it if some experts could check the following as I can not seem to get any help from other forums.  Basically I am trying to save some Form Controls, their content and some attributes.  My main application has around 100 textBoxes created via code and I want to save the content and attributes. The application is quite large so I have created the following just to illustrate.

 

The main problem I have is that Serialization does not 'appear' to allow you to serialize a Control you have to save each attribute separately. OK BUT when you DeSerialize you have to know each Name.

 

Also a minor problem but ForEach Controls seems to capture last added first.

 

Criticism is welcome I am a newbie and just trying to get things right.

 

Many Thanks

 

Alan

 

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using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data;

using System.IO;

using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

namespace FormClass

{

///

/// Summary description for Form1.

///

public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form

{

public System.Windows.Forms.Label label1;

private System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;

private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnSave;

private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnOpen;

private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1;

private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox2;

private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox3;

private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox4;

///

/// Required designer variable.

///

private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

public Form1()

{

//

// Required for Windows Form Designer support

//

InitializeComponent();

//

// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call

//

}

///

/// Clean up any resources being used.

///

protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )

{

if( disposing )

{

if (components != null)

{

components.Dispose();

}

}

base.Dispose( disposing );

}

#region Windows Form Designer generated code

///

/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify

/// the contents of this method with the code editor.

///

private void InitializeComponent()

{

this.label1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();

this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

this.btnSave = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

this.btnOpen = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

this.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

this.textBox2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

this.textBox3 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

this.textBox4 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();

this.SuspendLayout();

//

// label1

//

this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 8);

this.label1.Name = "label1";

this.label1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(264, 23);

this.label1.TabIndex = 0;

this.label1.Text = "label1";

//

// button1

//

this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(96, 40);

this.button1.Name = "button1";

this.button1.TabIndex = 1;

this.button1.Text = "button1";

this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click);

//

// btnSave

//

this.btnSave.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(96, 160);

this.btnSave.Name = "btnSave";

this.btnSave.TabIndex = 2;

this.btnSave.Text = "Save";

this.btnSave.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnSave_Click);

//

// btnOpen

//

this.btnOpen.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(96, 208);

this.btnOpen.Name = "btnOpen";

this.btnOpen.TabIndex = 3;

this.btnOpen.Text = "Open";

this.btnOpen.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnOpen_Click);

//

// textBox1

//

this.textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 80);

this.textBox1.Name = "textBox1";

this.textBox1.TabIndex = 4;

this.textBox1.Text = "textBox1";

//

// textBox2

//

this.textBox2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(184, 80);

this.textBox2.Name = "textBox2";

this.textBox2.TabIndex = 5;

this.textBox2.Text = "textBox2";

//

// textBox3

//

this.textBox3.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(8, 120);

this.textBox3.Name = "textBox3";

this.textBox3.TabIndex = 6;

this.textBox3.Text = "textBox3";

//

// textBox4

//

this.textBox4.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(184, 120);

this.textBox4.Name = "textBox4";

this.textBox4.TabIndex = 7;

this.textBox4.Text = "textBox4";

//

// Form1

//

this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);

this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 262);

this.Controls.Add(this.textBox4);

this.Controls.Add(this.textBox3);

this.Controls.Add(this.textBox2);

this.Controls.Add(this.textBox1);

this.Controls.Add(this.btnOpen);

this.Controls.Add(this.btnSave);

this.Controls.Add(this.button1);

this.Controls.Add(this.label1);

this.Name = "Form1";

this.Text = "Form1";

this.ResumeLayout(false);

}

#endregion

///

/// The main entry point for the application.

///

[STAThread]

static void Main()

{

Application.Run(new Form1());

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

textBox1.BackColor = Color.AliceBlue;

textBox2.ForeColor = Color.Blue;

}

private void btnSave_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{ // Serialize

Class1 myClass = new Class1();

foreach ( object item in this.Controls )

{

if ( item.GetType() == typeof(TextBox))

{

myClass.saveplus.Add(item);

}

}

BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

Stream stream = File.Open("Myserial.dat",FileMode.Create );

bf.Serialize(stream, myClass);

stream.Close();

}

private void btnOpen_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{ // De-Serialize

BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();

Stream stream = File.Open("Myserial.dat",FileMode.Open);

Class1 myClass = (Class1) bf.Deserialize(stream);

stream.Close();

int i = 0;

foreach ( Control item in this.Controls )

{

if ( item.GetType() == typeof(TextBox))

{

item.Text = (string)myClass.saveplus[i];

item.BackColor = (Color)myClass.saveplus[i+1];

item.ForeColor = (Color)myClass.saveplus[i+2];

i += 3;

}

}

}

}

}

 

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using System;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Runtime.Serialization;

using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

using System.Collections;

namespace FormClass

{

///

/// Summary description for Class1.

///

[Serializable()]

public class Class1 : ISerializable

{

public ArrayList saveplus = new ArrayList();

public Class1()

{

}

#region ISerializable Members

public void GetObjectData(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)

{ // Serialize

TextBox tb;

foreach ( TextBox item in saveplus )

{

tb = (TextBox)item;

info.AddValue(tb.Name, tb.Text);

info.AddValue(tb.Name + "a", tb.BackColor);

info.AddValue(tb.Name + "b", tb.ForeColor);

}

}

public Class1(SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context)

{ // De Serialize

for ( int i = 4; i > 0; i -= 1 )

{

// tb = (TextBox) item;

saveplus.Add((string)info.GetValue("textBox" + i,

typeof(string)));

saveplus.Add((Color)info.GetValue("textBox" + i + "a",

typeof(Color)));

saveplus.Add((Color)info.GetValue("textBox" + i + "b",

typeof(Color)));

}

}

#endregion

}

}