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    <p>I used to store Control information in an XML file, like so:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Controls&gt; &lt;Label Id="heading" Text="This is a heading!" FontStyle="(FontStyleDataHere)" Location="20, 10" /&gt; &lt;Label Id="bodyText" Text="This is Body text." FontStyle="(FontStyleDataHere)" Location="20, 70" /&gt; &lt;/Controls&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have been looking for a printed version of many pages of code that I had last year, and it was the only backup I had left and cannot find it now.</p> <p>And since I cannot remember how the heck I did this, I always fels that XML was incredibly tedious. So I thought, why not give JSON a go. It seems a bit easier...</p> <p>Now, given the above code, I was able to create a class of type Person, and Serialize the object and write it to the file (or Console - whatever):</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Runtime.Serialization; using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; namespace SerializeToJson { class Program { [DataContract] internal class Person { [DataMember] internal String Name; [DataMember] internal Int32 Age; } static void Main(string[] args) { Person person = new Person() { Name = "Jason rules.", Age = 19 }; MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(); DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Person)); serializer.WriteObject(stream, person); stream.Position = 0; StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream); Console.Write("Json form of Person object: "); Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd()); Console.ReadKey(); } } } </code></pre> <p>But the problem is, I do not know how to Serialize Controls to Json. And this is what I really need. And, obviously, I will need to then at a later point in time, deserialize them, so they can be re-created at runtime.</p> <p>Can this be done, with JSON, or would you recommend I still use XML for this?</p>
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    2. COI have an application that allows its users to rearrange the entire user interface to their liking, so this is why I need to save Control information and state to file and be able to retrieve it again.
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