Hi Puneet,

You can't just serialize the object like this. There's a lot more to it, which is why I strongly recommend that you use the built-in save and load methods which handle all of the binding and formatting and also versioning.

You seem to be under the impression that you cannot use SaveAsXml to save more than one layout to the same file, but that is not true. You can create a FileStream and then save all of the layouts into a single file.

There is a catch, though. an XML document cannot have more than one root node. So using SaveAsXml is problematic, unless you want to also get involved in writing a root node and then dealing with positioning to the proper position within the file in order to load the first layout.

Saving/loading to binary is easier:

        private void ultraButton2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            MyFormLayouts myLayouts = new MyFormLayouts();
            myLayouts.GridLayout1 = ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout;
            myLayouts.GridLayout2 = ultraGrid2.DisplayLayout;

            ////Following line throws error {"Cannot serialize member 'Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridLayout.ColScrollRegions' of type 'Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.ColScrollRegionsCollection', see inner exception for more details."}
            //XmlSerializer serializeXml = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyFormLayouts));
            //XmlWriter xmlWrit= XmlWriter.Create(Application.StartupPath+"\\MyFormat.xml");
            //serializeXml.Serialize(xmlWrit, myLayouts);

            string fileName = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath), "MyFormat.bin");
            FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(fileName,  FileMode.Create);
            myLayouts.GridLayout1.Save(fileStream);
            myLayouts.GridLayout2.Save(fileStream);
            fileStream.Flush();
            fileStream.Dispose();
        }

        private void ultraButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string fileName = Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath), "MyFormat.bin");
            FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open);
            MyFormLayouts myLayouts = new MyFormLayouts();
            
            UltraGridLayout layout = new UltraGridLayout();
            layout.Load(fileStream);
            myLayouts.GridLayout1 = layout;

            layout = new UltraGridLayout();
            layout.Load(fileStream);
            myLayouts.GridLayout2 = layout;

            this.ultraGrid1.DisplayLayout.CopyFrom(myLayouts.GridLayout1);
            this.ultraGrid2.DisplayLayout.CopyFrom(myLayouts.GridLayout2);
        }

Attached the file

Hi,

I had implemented it in a similar way. We actually have a few other controls on the form which we would have liked to store in the user layout preferences. So what we have done is to create a separate layouts class containing variables of UltraGridLayout for our form and tried to serialize it into a file. I have attached a sample which tries to imitate the scenario. We have several grid objects in the actual case. I know about the SaveAsXml function in the UltraGridLayout class but we would not like to have multiple files and instead work with one file only.

Thanks

Puneet