Serialize a UserControl?

[VingeFaan]

Hello.

Can I serialize a UserControl directly? By that I mean the entire control itself, not by using extra inner classes or specific logic for each usercontrol? I have 50ish usercontrols which I have made, and implementing logic for serialization into each is very time-consuming.

I've tried to serialize the usercontrols, but got the following exception:
System.Runtime. Serialization.S erializationExc eption: The type System.Windows. Forms.UserContr ol in Assembly System.Windows. Forms, Version=1.0.500 0.0, Culture=neutral , PublicKeyToken= b77a5c561934e08 9 is not marked as serializable.

More specific explanation:
I have a form with a combobox containing a list of my usercontrols. When I choose a usercontrol, it is added to the form and then removed again when another one is chosen, hence there's always only one of the controls added to my form. When I've chosen a usercontrol I would like to restore the values I've entered it previously. All my usercontrols inherit from "MainUserContro l" which inherit from Forms.UserContr ol.

Hope I've explained my problem properly.

Regards,
Øyvind

[kenobewan]

Welcome to TSDN. Here is a post that may help:
Serialize a UserControl

[VingeFaan]

Tyvm for your reply.

I did mark MainUserControl (which all my usercontrols inherit from) as [Serializable], but this didn't help. I have however not implemented ISerializable, because this mean I have to implement the serialization for each UserControl right? This is what I'm trying to avoid.

[VingeFaan]

I still cannot seem to figure this out - Anyone got a clue?