How to save end-user customization

[Franco]

Good evening.
    I want to know if there's a way to save the end-user customization of a CommandBar Control. If the user removes a button, or change the disposition of the strips... when he closes the application, next time he wants to find the layout as it was. I didn't find a method to do this.

Thank you.
Franco

[Richard Slade]

Hello Franco,

I haven't tried this feature yet, but it looks very useful. The RadCommandBar has a CommandBarElement, and from this, just like the RadGridView you can save and load a layout to a file.

For exmaple:

Me.RadCommandBar1.CommandBarElement.LoadLayout("FileName")
Me.RadCommandBar1.CommandBarElement.SaveLayout("FileName")

LoadLayout Documentation

hope this helps, but please let me know if you need further information

Richard

[Richard Slade]

Hello again,

i've just tried this and it works very well.

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _

    ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    If My.Computer.FileSystem.FileExists("C:\Users\Richard\MyCommandBar.xml") Then

        Me.RadCommandBar1.CommandBarElement.LoadLayout("C:\Users\Richard\MyCommandBar.xml")

    End If

End Sub



Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles MyBase.FormClosing

    Me.RadCommandBar1.CommandBarElement.SaveLayout("C:\Users\Richard\MyCommandBar.xml")

End Sub

Hope this helps
Richard

[Richard Slade]

Hi Franco,

How did you get on with this? If it helped, please mark as answer so others can find the solution too.
Regards,
Richard

[Stefan]

Hi guys, 

Thank you for writing.

Richard's suggestion is the correct way of achieving the desired scenario. However, pretty soon we are going to upload a help article regarding this topic. 

Thank you Richard for your cooperation. If you guys need any additional assistance, do not hesitate to contact me.
 
Regards,
Stefan
the Telerik team

[Gabriele]

Hi,

I have the same issue and aftger triying to use the SaveLayout and LoadLayour methods, the commandbar is always in the default state, any change in the position of the commandbarrows is not memorized in the XML file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-Gabriele

[Gabriele]

Sorry, never mynd.

I did a mistake, not it works.

-Gabriele