public void Test()
{
// create settings for testing
MySettings settingsTest = new MySettings();
// save settings to file. You could also pass a path created from a SaveFileDialog, or sth. similar.
settingsTest.Save(MySettings.GetDefaultPath());
// Load settings. You could also pass a path created from an OpenFileDialog.
MySettings anotherTest = MySettings.Load(MySettings.GetDefaultPath());
// do stuff with the settings.
}
public static MySettings Load(string path)
{
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(path))
{
throw new System.ArgumentException("File \"" + path + "\" does not exist.");
}
try
{
MySettings result = null;
SharpSerializerXmlSettings settings = new SharpSerializerXmlSettings();
SharpSerializer serializer = new SharpSerializer(settings);
result = (MySettings)serializer.Deserialize(path);
return(result);
}
catch (Exception err)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("Error in MySettings.LoadConfiguration():\r\nMessage:\r\n{0}\r\nStackTrace:\r\n{1}", err.Message, err.StackTrace), err);
}
}
//
public static MySettings Load(string path)
{
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(path)) throw new System.ArgumentException("File \"" + path + "\" does not exist.");
try
{
MySettings result = null;
// the serialization settings are just a needed standard object as long as you don't want to do something special.
SharpSerializerXmlSettings settings = new SharpSerializerXmlSettings();
// create the serializer.
SharpSerializer serializer = new SharpSerializer(settings);
// deserialize from File and receive an object containing our deserialized settings, that means: a MySettings Object with every public property in the state that they were saved in.
result = (MySettings)serializer.Deserialize(path);
// return deserialized settings.
return result;
}
catch (Exception err)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("Error in MySettings.LoadConfiguration():\r\nMessage:\r\n{0}\r\nStackTrace:\r\n{1}", err.Message, err.StackTrace), err);
}
}