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BaseAppearanceCollection.RestoreLayoutFromStream(Stream) 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 from the specified stream.

Namespace: DevExpress.Utils

Assembly: DevExpress.Utils.v24.2.dll

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

#Declaration

public virtual void RestoreLayoutFromStream(
    Stream stream
)

#Parameters

Name Type Description
stream Stream

A Stream descendant from which the appearance settings are read.

#Remarks

Use the RestoreLayoutFromStream method to load the appearance settings from a stream to which these settings were saved via the BaseAppearanceCollection.SaveLayoutToStream method. If the specified stream is empty or null (Nothing in Visual Basic), an exception is raised.

#Example

The following sample code saves the appearance settings used to paint the XtraGrid’s elements to a memory stream and then restores them.

System.IO.Stream str;
str = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
gridControl1.MainView.Appearance.SaveLayoutToStream(str);
str.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);

// ...

gridControl1.MainView.Appearance.RestoreLayoutFromStream(str);
str.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
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