AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper Class

Contains methods to serialize and de-serilaze an appointment.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraScheduler.Xml

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraScheduler.v20.2.Core.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Scheduler.Core, DevExpress.WindowsDesktop.Scheduler.Core

Declaration

C#

public class AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper :
    SchedulerXmlPersistenceHelper

VB.NET

Public Class AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper
    Inherits SchedulerXmlPersistenceHelper

Remarks

Use the ToXml method to serialize an appointment, and the AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper.ObjectFromXml method to de-serialize it.

Example

The code sample demonstrates how to serialize an appointment, i.e., to create an XML string which is used to store an appointment in the data source bound to the scheduler. The resulting string is displayed as an appointment’s description.

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/winforms-schedulercontrol-api-t224044

Serialization.cs

SchedulerCompatibility.Base64XmlObjectSerialization = true;
foreach (Appointment apt in scheduler.ActiveView.GetAppointments()) {
    AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper helper = 
        new AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper(apt, null);
    apt.Description = helper.ToXml();
}

Serialization.vb

SchedulerCompatibility.Base64XmlObjectSerialization = True
For Each apt As Appointment In scheduler.ActiveView.GetAppointments()
    Dim helper As New AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper(apt, Nothing)
    apt.Description = helper.ToXml()
Next apt

Inheritance

Object

XmlPersistenceHelper

DevExpress.XtraScheduler.Xml.SchedulerXmlPersistenceHelper

AppointmentXmlPersistenceHelper