Hello Michael,

I am just checking the progress of this issue and was wondering if you managed to achieve your goal or if you need any further assistance on the matter.

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Hello,

I got an explanation I our development team for using the interface.

I would say that the main functionality of this interface is to allow an object to be serialized and desterilized into a string. 

So if you have an object that you want persisted you would implement this interface on the object.  Then when the PerMgr is running on the object, it will see that the interface is on the object and call the .Save method and you would take the object and make a string that will represent your object.  The Load method takes your string and allows you to rehydrate.

So in the example in the class above  when we save the SortedColumnsCollection, we really just want to know what columns and what direction those column are in.

So our save method looks like

string val = "";

foreach (Column col in this)

{

    val += col.Key + ":" + col.IsSorted + ",";

}

return val;

In load we have

protected virtual void Load(object owner, string value)

{

    if (value != null)

    {

        SortingSettingsOverride settings = owner as SortingSettingsOverride;

        if (settings != null && settings.ColumnLayout != null)

        {

            this.Clear();

            string[] cols = ((string)value).Split(',');

            foreach (string col in cols)

            {

                if (col.Length > 0)

                {

                    string[] keyPair = col.Split(':');

                    if (keyPair.Length == 2)

                    {

                        Column column = settings.ColumnLayout.Columns.DataColumns[keyPair[0]];

                        if (column != null)

                        {

                            column.IsSorted = (SortDirection)Enum.Parse(typeof(SortDirection), keyPair[1], true);

                        }

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    }

}

So we get the string that we persisted in the value property, since we know what object we are in we take the string , parse it and rehydrate our object.

I can also suggest you look through the source code to get a better understanding of the approach.

Please let me know if I can assist you further on the matter.

Hello Michael,

I have been looking into you issue and I do see what you mean. I am going to contact our Documentations and Product Guidance departments on your behalf and see if the y can come up with anything suitable.

I’ll update you shortly on my progress.