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BaseAppearanceCollection.RestoreLayoutFromRegistry(String) Method

SECURITY NOTE

Deserializing layout settings from untrusted resources may create security issues. Review the following help topic for additional information: Safe Deserialization.

Restores the appearance settings stored at the specified system registry path.

Namespace: DevExpress.Utils

Assembly: DevExpress.Utils.v24.2.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Utils, DevExpress.Wpf.Core

#Declaration

public virtual void RestoreLayoutFromRegistry(
    string path
)

#Parameters

Name Type Description
path String

A string value specifying the system registry path. If the specified path doesn’t exist, calling this method has no effect.

#Remarks

Use the `RestoreLayoutFromRegistry`` method to restore appearance settings written to the system registry by the BaseAppearanceCollection.SaveLayoutToRegistry method.

Whole and partial registry keys can be used for this method’s parameter. For example, if “Software\Company" is passed as the parameter the full path will be: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Company". If you wish to store the settings in another root key, you should define the entire path for example “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Company".

#Example

The following code can be used to write and read the appearance settings applied to the XtraGrid’s elements to/from the system registry. The full path used is: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\DevExpress\Utils\Layouts\Appearance.

string regKey = "DevExpress\\Utils\\Layouts\\Appearance";
gridControl1.MainView.Appearance.SaveLayoutToRegistry(regKey);

//...

gridControl1.MainView.Appearance.RestoreLayoutFromRegistry(regKey);
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