BaseAppearanceCollection.RestoreLayoutFromStream(Stream) Method

Restores the appearance settings from the specified stream.

Namespace: DevExpress.Utils

Assembly: DevExpress.Utils.v19.2.dll

Declaration

C#

public virtual void RestoreLayoutFromStream(
    Stream stream
)

VB.NET

Public Overridable Sub RestoreLayoutFromStream(
    stream As 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.

C#

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);

VB.NET

Dim str As System.IO.Stream
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)