Save and restore Form position and DataGridView's configuration

Save and restore Form position and DataGridView's configuration

• skyshock21

  Thanks for your help.
  
  Because my application need to save and restore width, order of columns in DataGridView so i created a array to save this information. But client configuration just support single value, therefore i'm very difficult to solve my solution.
  
  Please tell me more detail about my solution.
  Thanks.
  

• Jeff Solomon

  I took a cursory glance at this issue this morning and I believe a simple example is not possible and a good, useful example goes beyond the scope of these forums.  This is my way of saying that I couldn't find enough info on the web to put it all together.  Perhaps when VS.NET 2005 is released the documentation will provide a more complete example of how to persist user preferences for complex objects like this.
  
  

• tpreato

  I think that all these replies are right. The right one to me is the dataset option and store the settings in the database.
   
  Ive seen that Microsoft Access stores these settings this way. the data is located in the hidden tables of each mdbs. it is a little difficult to me to read the way its stored but i think it can be done.
  
  

  
  
  

• Yvon Turcotte

  Dear ThE_lOtUs,
  It is a first time i have solved this solution. If you don't mind please give me your sample code. I have solved this problem for a long time, but i can't. So i post this topic in forum and hope eveybody discuss so that i can get some useful in formation.
  
  Thanks for your help
  

• apclogan

  Hi,
  
  As you said you could try saving the locations and other properties to a .ini file. You could simply use the basic textfile classes available on .net to create the .ini file. You could save it on your unload and read it on your load event. If you want it to be hidden to the users eye. THen you could store it in the registry....
  
  
  
  
  
  
  cheers,
  
  Paul June A. Domag
  
  

• DOrsborne

  I'm doing the same thing and using the simple

  IsolatedStorageFile
  
  class. It's a hidden file saved for each user on each machine, it's a simple xml file so I think an array can easely be saved.

  
  
  

• Premal Mistry

    Use a dataset. It should have 3 columns, Form, Field, and value. When your application starts up, it should load the dataset into a shared object. Then in your form's show event, it reads the appropriate values. When it closes, it updates the appropriate values back to the dataset. Finally when the app closes, it writes the dataset to disk.
    I use a variant of this using a database in one of my apps today. All of my show, close code is in a base class form, so all of its children get the behavior for "free."
    (I'm borrowing this behavior from code that an ex-coworker had in a PowerBuilder app a decade ago.)
  
  Mike
  
  
  

• Nauman Raza

  The .NET Framework 2.0 provides what you are looking for:
  
  Check out the Windows Forms section of this link:
  http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/downloads/101samples/default.aspx
  
  Try this link as well:
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k4s6c3a0
  
  
  
• Save and restore Form position and DataGridView's configuration