How to save and retreive the required properties for a control?
In general, you can save and retrieve the required properties of a control by using the XML Serialization and Deserialization in WPF.
For example, the following code demonstrates the saving and retrieving of the background color of an IntegerTextBox by using the XML Serialization and Deserialization.
XAML
<Window.Resources>
<syncfusion:ColorToBrushConverter x:Key="ColorToBrushConverter"/>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="10">
<TextBlock Text="Select color" Width="200"/>
<syncfusion:ColorPickerPalette Width="200" x:Name="colorPalette"/>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="10">
<TextBlock Text="IntegerTextBox" Width="200"/>
<syncfusion:IntegerTextBox Background="{Binding ElementName=colorPalette,Path=Color,Converter={StaticResource ColorToBrushConverter}}" x:Name="box"/>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</Grid>
C#
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
Data userchoices;
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
userchoices = new Data();
Loaded += MainWindow_Loaded;
Closing +=MainWindow_Closing;
}
public static void Serialization(string xmlPath, Data tasks)
{
try
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Data));
using (StreamWriter wr = new StreamWriter(xmlPath))
{
xs.Serialize(wr, tasks);
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
}
}
public static Data DeSeralization(string xmlPath)
{
try
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Data));
using (StreamReader rd = new StreamReader(xmlPath))
{
return xs.Deserialize(rd) as Data;
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
return null;
}
}
private void MainWindow_Closing(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
userchoices = new Data() { BackColor = colorPalette.Color.ToString() };
Serialization(".xml", userchoices);
}
void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var choices = DeSeralization(".xml");
if (colorPalette != null && choices.BackColor != "Color")
{
colorPalette.Color = (Color)System.Windows.Media.ColorConverter.ConvertFromString(choices.BackColor);
}
}
}
public class Data
{
private string backColor;
public string BackColor
{
get { return backColor; }
set { backColor = value; }
}
}Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed learning about how to save and retrieve the required properties for a WPF.
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