Serialize subclass of windows.forms.label

[DanielSheets]

I have a subclass of Windows.Forms.Label that I'd like to serialize to XML without using IXmlSerializable. A windows control (a Label in this case) isn't serializable. Consider the following...

public class SubLabel : Windows.Forms.Label
{
public Text {get; set;}
public int LocationX {get; set;}
public int LocationY {get; set;}

public void Save(string path)
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SubLabel));
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(path))
{
xs.Serialize(sw, this);
}
}

public static SubLabel Load(string path)
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TestClass));
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path))
{
return (SubLabel)xs.Deserialize(sr);
}
}
...
}

All I want to serialize are the public properties above. I'd like to keep it simple by using the Save() and Load() methods above. Of course this fails because of the Label parent class. Is there an easy way to do this?

[Ravi Bhavnani]

You could copy the selected public properties (Text, LocationX, LocationY) to a separate class and just serialize that.  Your Load() method would then deserialize that class and return a new SubLabel with those properties set. /ravi

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