[RESOLVED] Guidance on saving controls

[2ndmessiah]

It has been some time since I have posted here but I always seem to come back to this great resource when I need help.

I have a small windows form program that lets the user create controls (buttons) on a panel. I would like save these but the control collection of the panel is not serializable, so it is not immediately obvious how I would go about doing this.

My next thought was to create a datatable and storing the controls parameters, ie location, size, text etc then serializing this to disk.
I would then recreate the buttons next time the application is run.

I am open to any better suggestions on how best to do this.
Not looking for code, just and idea or two.

Thanks

[jmcilhinney]

My next thought was to create a datatable and storing the controls parameters, ie location, size, text etc then serializing this to disk.
I would then recreate the buttons next time the application is run.

That's basically it. It doesn't have to be a DataTable and it doesn't have to be serialisation specifically but you would basically save the parameters that describe the controls to some external file and reload at startup.

[2ndmessiah]

That is great thanks.