Hi Boris,
thank you for your quick response, it is very much appreciated.

We are using 11.2.20112.1010, the unsigned, version free assemblies.

Here is a copy of the calls:

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(_displayLayoutXml)))
{
    try
    {
        grdResults.DisplayLayout.LoadFromXml(ms);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Debug.Print(ex.ToString());
    }
}

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    grdResults.DisplayLayout.SaveAsXml(ms);
    ms.Position = 0;
    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms))
    {
        gridLayoutXml = sr.ReadToEnd();
    }
 
}

cheers
Andy 

Hello Andy,

Thank you for the sample provided. I downloaded and ran it but I do not get any exception or error, or a failure of some kind. Could you describe what exactly is the problem here? When I click on the button and execute Test1() method, the application just continues to run as it is the moment before. I got a little confused about this issue here, so a few details would be needed.

Hi Boris,
hmmm... in Form1.cs line 109 there is a Debug.Print statement that, in my case, prints the following exception to the console:

System.Xml.XmlException: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 260, position 18.

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.InvalidCharRecovery(Int32& bytesCount, Int32& charsCount)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.GetChars(Int32 maxCharsCount)

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ReadData()

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()

   at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()

   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml()

   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run()

   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser)

   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler)

   at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridLayout.LoadHelper(Stream stream, PropertyCategories propertyCategories, IFormatter formatter)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridLayout.LoadFromXml(Stream stream, PropertyCategories propertyCategories)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridLayout.LoadFromXml(Stream stream)

   at WindowsFormsApplication2.Form1.Test1() in D:\tmp\WindowsFormsApplication2\WindowsFormsApplication2\Form1.cs:line 105

I could reproduce this behavior on three machines right now, are you sure you don't get this exception. If not this is indeed pretty strange...

cheers
Andy 

Hi Boris,
after carefully investigating the video there was one thing that made me look closer.
Actually everything you did was exactly what I did, but while comparing the outputs I found a slight difference. I had a decoder fallback operation in my output, you didn't.

So I changed
Encoding.Default.GetBytes(displayLayoutAsString)

to
Encoding.UTF32.GetBytes(displayLayoutAsString) 

That seems to do the trick...

I will check with my main application but I am optimistic that this will fix the problem.

I am deeply sorry for troubling you with this problem, but I appreciated you help very much.
That again was a perfect sample for great support! Keep it up :)

So thank you very much Boris and have a great weekend,
best regards
Andy 

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback, please let me know if you have any question or if something comes up.

Hi Mike,

I hope you are doing good.

Thanks a lot for this suggestion... it totally makes sense.
I'll stick to this approach :)

cheers and thanks for this suggestion
Andy