User Settings XML Serialization Of An Object?
Jul 17, 2009
I am trying to save a custom object as a user setting in a VB.net app. This object consists of a List(Of Pair(Of String, Object)). Pair is a custom class which has two read/write properties (a String and an Object).
If I put simple types like int, string, datetime as the second value of my pair, the setting is saved without any problem. But if I try to put something more complex, like a list, there seems to be a problem during serialization and my setting is not saved.
String values in my pairs are serialized like this:
<value1>Priority_1</value1>
Object values are serialized with a special attribute:
<value2 xsi:type="xsd:int">2</value2>
Seems like values of type Object are serialized differently, to "remember" what is the real type of the object. Why can't it do the same for more complex types like List(Of T)?
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Aug 5, 2010
I am working on a .NET Windows Service where I am trying to store settings that will be used when the service is started and while it is running. I have searched through posts on SO and found that using the Settings in the properties of the project is great for use with console and winforms applications. However, Google and SO are silent when it pertains to storing these settings with a windows service.
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Nov 29, 2010
I'm trying to XML-serialize a class the properties of which I use to format a document.Basically, it is a class for the document's header and another class for its rows. url...In this class diagram, the class I want to serialize is ExcelPrintCorte that inherits its methods from ExcelCabec and has a private member ExcelPrintDocumento (and a public method to get it).My purpose is to XML-serialize ExcelPrintCorte and save the inherited properties' values and also the properties' values of ExcelPrintDocumento. I followed many guides to XML-serialize an object but it saves nothing but: [code] So, what am I doing wrong? Or is what I'm trying to do not possible with XML serialization?
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Jan 14, 2009
I just wondered if you can or can't save arrays using the settings system object. There seems to be no way of entering it at designtime. It seems implied you cannot create new user settings.subobjects at runtime. I'm looking to find the easiest way to save a populated array of PictureBox's. If the only way is a self/custom made/managed .ini file then I need to know so i can start on that but I was hoping to use some of all this phaff in the new frameworks usefully.
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Feb 10, 2010
My quest is in regards to xml serialization. I need to get rid of the root node of a collection. I don't have access to my source now so I'll just try to generalize
public class SomeClass
'...some other properties...
<XMLArray(isnullable:=true), _
<XMLArrayitem(datatype:=(getType(object1)), _
[code]....
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Feb 3, 2011
Is there any way to create an XmlSerializer that stores along with the serialized data the data type, then when deserializing, it automatically identifies the type of the serialized object and creates an object of that type (returned as object).
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Oct 30, 2010
Can somebody post a GOOD and short example of serialization and deserialization of an object?Where it can produce an output to string and later be crypted for database purpose. ^.^
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Aug 5, 2009
I am rewritting my application to conform to ms standards. We used to save all settings to registry for user settings, servername, size and locations.so we are now saving them into My.Settings app.config the only problem is that each time there is an update clickonce will isntall the newupdate but now all settings are loist and user has to save everything all over again..
I am trying to follow the book here but it seems i keep getting stuck somewhere. registry has worked fine for years but i understand we must move on, but if stuff like this happens then i just wasted a long time converting all code to conform for it to not work..
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Aug 12, 2009
My application's binary serialization was working well up to today (this is not a released app yet - still in development). I have a "Project" class that is the top-level class of a hierarchy of other classes related to its function. And before you think it, yes, all of those classes are marked as serializable. Infact, they all were being serialized before today.
I have one event on the Project class that assists in informing when the project's save status has changed (i.e. new, modified, saved). This event was added today along with some events on the other classes that filter up to the Project class (the project needs to be told when its objects have been modified). I unfortunately added all of this at the same time so I can't provide any incremental details as to when it stopped working, but when I try to save the project through my binary formatter it tells me that my main form is not marked as serializable. Well, yeah... of course it isn't! it shouldn't need to be because there is no member of my classes that even mentions the form. But for some reason handling the Project's event on the form triggers this error.
Serializing the form is not a solution. Neither is not being able to handle my Project events. If I comment out the handler it works fine -- and I don't even have to remove the WithEvents keyword on my form's Project variable. Now that I write that I'm speculating that it may have to do with the event being raised as a result of the serialization (occurs when the save button is clicked).
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Apr 15, 2011
1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
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Mar 14, 2010
The issue is when I try to add a new item to the ArrayList with the following code, it gives me an error:
vb Private Sub btnLabelAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnLabelAdd.Click
Dim result As String = InputBox("New Filter Label:", "Label List")
[CODE]................
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to be doing with this. It's a new setting I just added and it's empty, so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. Anyone know what's going on and what needs to be done to get it to accept a value and not want to be "initialized"?
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Jun 29, 2010
how to reset user settings in My.Settings to the default value, because when i checked if the user settings works i have altered the settings so now i want the settings to go back to default, because i am going to distribute the software.
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Jun 8, 2010
how i can save user settings in vb.net
i have a project with different buttons when a user clicks a button the image of PictureBox1 will change.
i want to save this image that the user has chosen after he closes the application, so it will be displayed in PictureBox1 when loaded.
i am using Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express
the languge is VB
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Sep 17, 2009
I've been using XML serialization for a while, and today I realized something really odd. If I have a new line right after a "dot" (.), when i deserialize, I lose the dot. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? The following is my serialization code:
[Code]...
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Aug 7, 2009
in vb.net i am trying to save application settings but for USER but i cannot find the user.config file
when does this file get created?
i searched my entire hardrive. i also searched the entire project.
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Jun 5, 2010
I am attempting to create an application in an attempt so it could be run as the user and preserve individual settings, by this what i am trying to achieve is when the application is installed, it is installed once but each user has their own settings saved within their own profile - a bit like Office applications. How could i start with this?
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Oct 16, 2009
Does link text mean I have to return a concrete implementation? Even though I am using svcutil with the /r that includes my entites(where IMyInterface is defined). I get no errors but it changes all List(of IMyInterface) to list(of Object) and I cannot deserialize it on the client
Error: list(of object) cannot be converted to list(of IMyInterface).
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Apr 14, 2008
I'm trying to save a collection of key/value settings in my application's "user settings" (they're column widths), but while I see no errors, when I run the code (in the IDE) my collection in "My.Settings" is always nothing at startup. I do a "My.Settings.Save" when the application exits, and barring the "serializers not found" errors in the IDE, no other errors occur. When I run my application as an exe, it behaves the same way..
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Mar 26, 2010
I'm trying to save some settings in a complex object. If I make a dll of the class I can then add it in the projects properties settings list as that type.When the program runs though it won't show up as anything other than nothing. I read you have to have a sub new empty constructor which I have but don't know why else this would fail.First question is how to you do this. Second is there anyway to use a class inside the project as the target of the settings type or do you have to bring a in an external dll to do this every time? [code]
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May 8, 2012
I tryed searching for an user in active directory using the code below but it gives me the error in the title of this post above:
AD = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=SchoolOUhere,OU=Staff,DC=garrard,DC=ketsds,DC=net", "", "", AuthenticationTypes.Secure)
AD2 = New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=_Groups,OU=Staff,DC=garrard,DC=ketsds,DC=net", "", "", AuthenticationTypes.Secure)
[Code]...
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Feb 10, 2012
I have created a custom user control (JCUserControl), and I am using it in the Main Window. And my Main Window has no codebehind. I have this in the JCUserControl codebehind:
Private Sub ImmediateRadioButton_Checked(sender As System.Object, e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles ImmediateRadioButton.Checked
SomeTextBox.IsEnabled = False
End Sub
When I run it, it fails with the NullReferenceException. If I comment out the SomeTextBox.IsEnabled = false, it runs without any problems.
Edit: Found out that I could just check if the radio buttons are loaded before doing whatever I want to do.
Private Sub ImmediateRadioButton_Checked(sender As System.Object, e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles ImmediateRadioButton.Checked
If ImmediateRadioButton.IsLoaded Then
SomeTextBox.IsEnabled = False
End If
End Sub
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Nov 24, 2011
I have two experimental web services. One is an asmx contained within a .net web application. The other is a WCF service library being invoked from the web application.The asmx basically does everything I need, but I think WCF would be better, except that it doesn't do anything as I would expect after fiddling with the asmx service.For example, the same method behaves differently in each:
' ASMX
<WebMethod(BufferResponse:=True, EnableSession:=False)>
Function Test(aObject as Object) as Object
' object will have been successfully serializaed into a dictionary
[code]...
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Dec 28, 2009
I have a custom settings file that I designed using the designer. In my form, I have a function that creates a new instance of this settings by using a dim statement. Then I add this new settings object to a hashtable. After I exit this function, I no longer have access to the settings object without using the hashtable to retrieve it. If I want to remove the object from the hashtable, I can do a simple remove but the settings object still exists somewhere in memory. How can I dispose of this object as well since it inherits from ApplicationSettingsBase and does not have a built in Dispose() function?
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Dec 17, 2009
I have a sub that I want to receive a My.Settings object. I don't know, though, which kind of object to use in the declare line of the sub. For example:[code]
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Jun 8, 2009
I'd like to store a set of key/value pairs in the application settings of my ASP.NET web app, but I'm not finding a straightforward way to do that. For example, these two questions tell me that StringDictionary etc. won't serialize to XML and suggest that I'll have to roll my own implementation. But it seems like this should be easier to do; after all, web.config is XML and < applicationSettings> is essentially a collection of key/value pairs, so it feels like I'm missing something obvious. Given my specific case below, do I really have to roll my own serialization, or is there an easier workaround?
The web app in question is a basic contact form that sends email to different recipients based on the value of a parameter; e.g. [URL]...The goal is to be able add or remove recipients (or change their addresses) by editing the web.config file so that I don't have to recompile and can easily maintain different configurations in test and production environments. For example:
// I can use something like this for the sender address SmtpMsg.From = New MailAddress(My.Settings.EmailSender)
// And then just edit this part of web.config to use different addresses in different environments.
<setting name="EmailSender" serializeAs="String"> <value>webcontact@exampledomain.com</value>
[Code]...
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Feb 25, 2012
I'm pretty sure this has been answered on this thread before, but I'm having trouble searching for it, so I decided to make a new post. Anyway, My problem is that I have a Setting from "My.Settings.Navigation" that is a Specialized String Collection, and what I am trying to do is find a method in which I can attach "My.Settings.Navigation" to a ComboBox. I was also wondering if it was possible to make it only hold up to 20 items at a time?
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Jul 18, 2011
I'm running an application under an account that is not the account logged-on to the PC.
Within the application I need check if the logged-on user is a member of the Administrators group. Below is the code I'm using. From what I've read, WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() should return an object associated with the logged-on user. It doesn't, it returns the same information as the call to System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal. Which is the information associated to the ID running the application, not the logged-on user.
[Code]...
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Sep 15, 2010
I have an application that uses user settings and I have a button that gets a value (long) and writes this in a textbox I then have a setting called StoredKey with the data type of long I then pass this to the setting like this:my.settings.StoredKey=cLng(textbox1.text)this all works well in debug, but when I deploy my application and try to store the value in my.settings.StoredKey the value never gets written in!by deploy I mean packaging the exe in a setup and deployment project type and performing the wizard install to c:program files.[code]
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May 16, 2012
So, I've created a form that allows for the user to save his or her settings after closing it. When using Visual Basics to run the program, there is no problem and it works wonders.Here is the problem.When I run the program not in Visual Basics, when I go to open the form, it fails. At first, it was because I didn't update the configuration file to include the new settings. Which was dumb, of course, but I updated the file and made sure to put it with the program.
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Nov 23, 2011
I have a NumericUpDown Control on a form. In the Application Settings / Properties Binding, for the value parameter, i can't select my USER setting called : Heures (Integer / User).
[Code]...
But it's not saved.No problem for other settings (String / User). But i don't understand why the settings (Integer / User) are not saved.
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