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Save and Load RadGridView's layout

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 RadGridView   for WinForms

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 Boyko Markov, Telerik

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 7/2/2008

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 Boyko Markov


HOW-TO
Save and load RadGridView's layout

SOLUTION

To Save the current layout of RadGridView in xml format use the SaveLayout method. The only parameter you need to pass is the string containing the file name.
      
string s = "default.xml"; 
this.radGridView1.SaveLayout(s); 
      

In the following example we add a functionality to save the grid's layout into any xml file using the SaveFileDialog

string s = "default.xml";  
SaveFileDialog dialog = new SaveFileDialog(); 
dialog.Filter = "xml files (*.xml)|*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*";  
dialog.Title = "Select a xml file"; 
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) 
{ 
  s = dialog.FileName; 
} 
 
this.radGridView1.SaveLayout(s); 


To Load the layout a string argument containing the file name should be passed as a parameter to the LoadLayout method of RadGridView. Here is a sample code:

string s = "default.xml"; 
this.radGridView1.LoadLayout(s); 
 

Below is shown how to load any of the already saved xml files containing the grid's layout  definitions using the OpenFileDialog.

string s = "default.xml"; 
OpenFileDialog dialog = new OpenFileDialog(); 
dialog.Filter = 
"xml files (*.xml)|*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*";  
dialog.Title = "Select a xml file"; 
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) 
{ 
   s = dialog.FileName; 
} 
 
this.radGridView1.LoadLayout(s); 
 



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