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XmlTheme

Class

Represents a theme for a telerik control. Themes can be serialized and deserialized, thus saving and loading the theme for a given control. XmlTheme implements IXmlSerializable which provides custom formatting for XML serialization and deserialization.

Definition

Namespace:Telerik.WinControls

Assembly:Telerik.WinControls.dll

Syntax:

public class XmlTheme : IXmlSerializable

Inheritance: objectXmlTheme

Implements: IXmlSerializable

Constructors

XmlTheme()

Initializes a new instance of the XmlTheme class.

public XmlTheme()

XmlTheme(XmlStyleSheet, string, string)

Initializes a new instance of the XmlTheme class from XmlStyleSheet, control type, and element type.

public XmlTheme(XmlStyleSheet style, string controlType, string elementType)

Parameters:styleXmlStyleSheetcontrolTypestringelementTypestring

Properties

BuilderRegistrations

XmlStyleBuilderRegistration[]

Gets or sets the Builder Registration for the theme. Each builder registration corresponds to a theme for single telerik control.

public XmlStyleBuilderRegistration[] BuilderRegistrations { get; set; }

HasRepository

bool

Gets value indicating whether this XmlTheme defines StyleRepository

public bool HasRepository { get; }

StyleRepository

XmlStyleRepository

Get the StyleRepository associated with this theme. StyleReposity contains named lists of PropertySettings, reffered by Key property, that can be inherited by the PropertySettingGroups of this theme. This is done by associating BsedOn property of the property setting group with PropertySettings list key. Since each theme can have only one repository, when different XmlTheme are registered with repositories ThemeResolutionService for the same theme the repositories are merged. If a PropertySettings list with the same Key is defined in several XmlTheme repository instances, the last laoded one overrides any existing list.

public XmlStyleRepository StyleRepository { get; }

ThemeName

string

Gets or sets a string value indicating the theme name.

public string ThemeName { get; set; }

ThemeVersion

string

public string ThemeVersion { get; set; }

Methods

Deserialize()

public Theme Deserialize()

Returns:

Theme

DeserializePartially(XmlReader)

public void DeserializePartially(XmlReader reader)

Parameters:readerXmlReader

DeserializeType(string)

Deserializes the provided deserialization string.

public static Type DeserializeType(string className)

Parameters:classNamestringReturns:

Type

LoadFromReader(TextReader)

Load a XML theme from a TextReader.

public static XmlTheme LoadFromReader(TextReader reader)

Parameters:readerTextReaderReturns:

XmlTheme

LoadFromReader(XmlReader)

Loads a theme from a XML reader.

public static XmlTheme LoadFromReader(XmlReader reader)

Parameters:readerXmlReaderReturns:

XmlTheme

LoadFromStram(Stream)

Loads a theme from a System.IO.Stream instance.

public static XmlTheme LoadFromStram(Stream stream)

Parameters:streamStreamReturns:

XmlTheme

SaveToStream(Stream)

public void SaveToStream(Stream stream)

Parameters:streamStream

SaveToWriter(XmlWriter)

Saves the theme to a XMLWriter.

public void SaveToWriter(XmlWriter writer)

Parameters:writerXmlWriter

SerializeType(Type)

Retrieves the serialization string of the given type.

public static string SerializeType(Type value)

Parameters:valueTypeReturns:

string