state of an object

[ventsislav]

How can I easily serialize (and deserial.) the items in a combo box?

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Form1 f = new Form1();

            f.comboBox1.Items.Add(new object[] {"Item1", "Item2"});

            XmlSerializer XmlSerial = new XmlSerializer(f.comboBox1.Items.GetType());

            XmlSerial.Serialize(Console.Out, f.comboBox1.Items);
        }
    }

It doesn' t work. And when I make it, I suppose I have to save the stream in a file, not in the Console output. What has to be this file, xml??

[GaryTexmo]

Here's the link to the XML Serialization tutorial I followed when I was looking into this...

http://www.devhood.com/Tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=236

I found it worked great and had no problems at all. The example near the bottom shows you how to write to a file.

As for the actual serialization.. . what error does it give you? I would have thought it would work, at least on my first glance at it.