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Article relates to	RadGridView   for WinForms
Created by	Boyko Markov, Telerik
Last modified	7/2/2008
Last modified by	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.
      
In the following example we add a functionality to save the grid's layout into any xml file using the SaveFileDialog



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:


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