Saving and loading layouts and other data as XML is suddenly not supported in .NET 6.0 and above.

Use of XML was encouraged as it gave portable data that was easily stored and transmitted but you have removed these methods from the .NET 6 and 7 versions of your products.

We used them so we could store and share grid layouts between users, putting the data into a database table.

This causes severe pain for any application that relied on them as data has to be converted from XML to Binary format, but you can't do that with a .NET 6 or 7 application because the XML methods don't exist. Your solution is to write a separate .NET Framework 4.8 application just to do the conversion.

Please bring back these XML methods.