Saving Toolbars location to xml

[Vijaya Kumar Reddy]

Hi,

Is there any way we can serialize the Toolbars location and any other related info to an XML file other than Isolated Storage?

Regards
Vijay

[Gopalakrishnan S]

Hi Vijay,

Thanks for using Syncfusion products.

You can use BarManager's SaveBarState() and LoadBarState() method to save and load the toolbar states. If you want to persist the bar state into a local folder instead of Isolated Storage, first you have to set the MainFrameBarManager's AutoPersistCustomization and AutoLoadToolBarPositions property to false.

Here is the code snippet:

// Load the Saved Bar Information
private void Form1_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
AppStateSerializer serializer = new AppStateSerializer(SerializeMode.XMLFile, "..//..//StateInfo");
this.mainFrameBarManager1.LoadBarState(serializer);
}

// Save the Bar State Information
private void Form1_Closing(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
AppStateSerializer serializer = new AppStateSerializer(SerializeMode.XMLFile, "..//..//StateInfo");
this.mainFrameBarManager1.SaveBarState(serializer);
serializer.PersistNow();
}

Sample

Please refer to the attachments and let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
S.Gopal.

[Klaus Ziegler]

Hello,

I would also work without the isolated storage and use the method LoadBarState and SaveBarState. I would like to customize a toolbar and the mainmenu, e.g. rename a menuentry. If I set the AutoPersistCustomization = true all works fine, but the information is saved in xml-file and the isolated storage. If I set the AutoPersistCustomization = false nothing works. The information is in the xml-file and nothing in the isolated storage, but if I restart the application, this means I load the bar state, the customization is lost.
How can I work with a XML-File without using the isolated storage.
I tested this also with the sample "Windows\Diagram.Windows\Samples\2.0\In Depth\DiagramBuilder".

Regards
Klaus

[Jeba S]

Hi Klaus,

Please follow the Direct-Trac incident 38563 for this query.

Thank you for using Syncfusion Products.

Best Regards,
Jeba.

[Craig Stephens]

I'm having the same type of problem as Klaus. Has there been any resolution?

Using the sample application provided in this thread:

1. Open app.
2. Remove a button from the toolbar.
3. Close app.
4. Open app.
5. Button that was removed is back when it should not be.

[J.Nagarajan]

Hi Craig ,

The SaveBarState/LoadBarState methods deal with the positional information of the menus/toolbars only. Hiding/showing or adding/removing BarItems/toolbars amounts to menu customization and the MainFrameBarManager's protected methods - LoadCustomizationInfo/SaveCustomizationInfo handle this.

So in your sample you should set

this.mainFrameBarManager1.AutoLoadToolBarPositions = false;
this.mainFrameBarManager1.AutoPersistCustomization = false;

and then load the state from the serialized file. The way all the state persistance is done to the same xml file.

http://websamples.syncfusion.com/samples/Tools.Windows/F56696/main.htm

Please take a look at the sample and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.

Best regards,
Nagaraj