Summary:
One of the most fundamental jobs for a piece of software is saving a document and loading it back up again. This process has become known as serialization, and .NET has strong support for this. In this article, Matthew Reynolds takes a look at how to save and load documents for a simple WinForms application. As part of the work, he introduces a reference implementation for properly handling the creating, saving and opening of documents as laid down by the Windows guidelines. |