Save WinForm or Controls to File

Question

I have been working on an application which allows the user to make a label template for printing purposes by adding label controls to a panel(which I use as a container). I ha

Answer 1

This isn't trivial, but personally I would set up a function that can be called recursively that would add nodes to an XML file.

I don't have actual code, but pseudo-code looks like this: (you will need to do some clean-up, because I'm doing this off the top of my head without the aid of Intellisense.)

XmlDocument doc;

function SaveForm()
{
   doc = new XmlDocument("FormInfo");
   foreach(Control ctrl in this.Controls)
   {
      AddControlToXml(ctrl, doc.Documentelement);
   }
}

function AddControlToXml(Control ctrl, XmlNode currentNode)
{
   XmlNode n = new XmlNode;
   Node.InnerText = ctrl.Name;
   foreach(Control ctrl2 in ctrl.Controls)
   {
      AddControlToXml(ctrl2);
   }

}