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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.v23.2.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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