Save and Load Layout Overview

Updated over 6 months ago

Save/Load layout functionality gives your applications the opportunity to preserve user grid settings such as column order and restore them later. Those layout settings are written in a XML file.

Here is a sample demonstrating how you can implement a Save Layout button event handler:

Save layout

C#

private void SaveButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    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);
}

VB.NET

Private Sub SaveButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadButton1.Click
    Dim s As String = "default.xml"
    Dim dialog As New SaveFileDialog()
    dialog.Filter = "xml files (*.xml)|*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*"
    dialog.Title = "Select a xml file"
    If dialog.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
        s = dialog.FileName
    End If
    Me.RadGridView1.SaveLayout(s)
End Sub

The code snippets below demonstrates how you can implement a Load Layout button event handler: 

Load layout

C#

private void LoadButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    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);
}

VB.NET

Private Sub LoadButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles RadButton2.Click
    Dim s As String = "default.xml"
    Dim dialog As New OpenFileDialog()
    dialog.Filter = "xml files (*.xml)|*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*"
    dialog.Title = "Select a xml file"
    If dialog.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
        s = dialog.FileName
    End If
    Me.RadGridView1.LoadLayout(s)
End Sub

Once the layout is being loaded the LayoutLoaded event is being thrown in order to notify that the load process is being finished.

See Also

• Advanced

• Save/Load layout buttons in the Property Grid

• How to Save/Load Layout with Custom Columns in RadGridView