serialization of custom controls

[Jan Warning]

I have an application that displays custom controls.
I want to serialize/deserialize these controls.
However, the serialization fails because all controls derive from
System.Windows.Forms.Control which is not serializable.

How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance, Jan Warning

[David Lee Conley]

"Jan Warning" <ja*********@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
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I have an application that displays custom controls.
I want to serialize/deserialize these controls.
However, the serialization fails because all controls derive from
System.Windows.Forms.Control which is not serializable.

How can I solve this?

Thanks in advance, Jan Warning

According to Steve Hoag, Visual Studio Team Microsoft Corporation February
2002:

"Likewise, serialization cannot be used for forms because a form is derived
from the System.Windows.Forms.Form class, which is not attributed as
Serializable. In order to persist the properties of a form, you must use
either Dynamic Properties or registry entries."

Dave