PropertyGrid Serialize Property of type SystemColor

[Joe]

Hi

I have a propertygrid that I allow the user to pick a system.color and I
want to save to a file to load later
onto the propertygrid. String and bool values work but I am unable to save
colors

Any suggestions???
Thanks
Serializing code
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XmlSerializer mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ExcelProperty));

// To write to a file, create a StreamWriter object.

StreamWriter myWriter = new StreamWriter(sFile);

mySerializer.Serialize(myWriter, this);

PropertyGrid Class

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[Category("Header")]

[Description("Backcolor data header row")]

public System.Drawing.Color HeaderBackColor

{

get { return cBackColor; }

set { cBackColor = value; }

}

[Category("Data")]

[Description("Alternate row color data rows")]

public bool AlternateRowColoring

{

get { return bAlternateRow; }

set { bAlternateRow = value; }

}

[Patrick Steele]

In article <OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, hc******@yahoo.com
says...

I am unable to save colors

Could you clarify that? Are you getting an error?

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http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

[Joe]

Hi

I get no error but the xml is empty for that property that stores
system.color

<AlternateRowColoring>true</AlternateRowColoring>
<AlternateRowColor />

"Patrick Steele" <pa*****@mvps.orgwrote in message
news:MP***********************@msnews.microsoft.co m...

In article <OU**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, hc******@yahoo.com
says...

>I am unable to save colors

Could you clarify that? Are you getting an error?

--
Patrick Steele
http://weblogs.asp.net/psteele

[Patrick Steele]

In article <#k**************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, hc******@yahoo.com
says...

Hi

I get no error but the xml is empty for that property that stores
system.color

<AlternateRowColoring>true</AlternateRowColoring>
<AlternateRowColor />

The "Color" structure has no public settable properties (the R, G, B and
A properties are read-only so they aren't serializable). You'll need to
add an extra property to serialize a Color property. See:

http://tinyurl.com/p7wxv

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