Save/Load view configuration to/from xml file

[columbos14927]

Hello, I have the next view XAML file:

The ItemsControl binded to:

public ObservableCollection<UserControl> MemControls
{
get { return _memControls; }
set { _memControls = value; }
}

in the view Model. I want to give the user an option to save GUI configuration. So when he press "Save" button i want to serialize the:

public ObservableCollection<UserControl> MemControls

to XML file and when he want to restore GUI configuration i want to to desirialize from an XML file the list of controls and that way to restore GUI configuration.

How can i do it?
Maybe there is some other better way that dont involve XML files?

Thanks

[Mycroft Holmes]

Although this article [^]is for winforms it may give you some ideas. I would also check out the comment from Tom Clement and see if he did an article on FormEx.

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[Abhinav S]

You can always consider using the Infragistics persistance framework to save and retrieve control state - http://www.infragistics.com/products/silverlight/persistence-framework/[^]. Or its not too difficult building your own framework - just serialize and store control attributes directly in the database.

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