c# - 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 have reached the point where I need to be able to save the template to a file which I can load into memory later for printing. Since the form is not serializable does anyone have suggestions on how I can save the form or container(with added label controls) to a file that can be reused later?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I wouldn't directly serialize a form to a file. Sounds like you need to create a class that will hold the state of the user's work. You should then serialize that class to and from a file. There are built in methods for that using either Binary or XML Serialization.