Save and recall multiple Properties.Settings.Default objects?

Question

To make things a tad simpler in my C# application, I decided to save all user style changes using the Properties.Settings properties, which works as expected.

But I liked the style change aspect of my app so much, and it is so important to the usage, that I have now decided to have savable and loadable style files( MyStyle.xxx ) for the user to save and reload. But as I have never used these user settings before, I am unsure of how to duplicate and save this object. Can it be done simply, or can I maybe write these objects to serialized XML? What is the common approach?

PS I tried researching this topic but because it is so closely related to just saving user settings, all I could find was questions about saving user settings.

Answer 1

This is sort of sketchy but it has worked for me in the past and seems to be a pretty decent solution..

Firstly, create a list of settings you want and some default values.

Then create some JSON-esque format for your data and save in the setting as a string. From there you can jsut copy paste this template and make say 3 more string in your settings file for a total of 4 strings with the same JSON stuff in it.

It's a bit of a fuss parsing that info in and out but if you do set it up in JSON format then it shouldn't be too hard.