Save a collection to page state in Windows 8?

Question

I have an app that loads webcomic images into a FlipView and I would like to save this in page state, however I seem to have run into some trouble with saving a List into LocalSettings. Is there a way for me to serialize this data so that I could save the state of my FlipView? Here's the code for Comic:

public class Comic
{
    public int Month { get; set; }
    public int Num { get; set; }
    public string Link { get; set; }
    public int Year { get; set; }
    public string News { get; set; }
    public string Safe_Title { get; set; }
    public string Transcript { get; set; }
    public string Alt { get; set; }
    public string Img { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public int Day { get; set; }

    public Comic() { }
}

Answer 1

Each element in LocalSettings has to be a supported Window Runtime type so you can't save the class instance itself, but you can create a composite value and set the individual properties. Take a look at the code sample for ApplicationDataCompositeValue

Alternatively, you could serialize to JSON and store as a single string (if < 8K total) or use a file in LocalFolder versus LocalSettings.