BaseAppearanceCollection.SaveLayoutToStream(Stream) Method

Saves the appearance settings to a specific stream.

Namespace: DevExpress.Utils

Assembly: DevExpress.Utils.v24.2.dll

Declaration

C#

public virtual void SaveLayoutToStream(
    Stream stream
)

VB.NET

Public Overridable Sub SaveLayoutToStream(
    stream As Stream
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
stream	Stream	A Stream descendant to which the appearance settings are written.

Remarks

Use the SaveLayoutToStream method to write the activated appearance settings to a stream. The appearance settings are activated if their corresponding options are enabled. You can then read the saved settings using the BaseAppearanceCollection.RestoreLayoutFromStream method.

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)