I want the user to be able to save their ribbon settings, however I want to exclude certain tools from being presisted. Is there a way to serialize the ribbon yet excluce (for example) just one state button or combo box?
I imagine I could reset those tools manually in code when the application initialzes, I was just wondering if there was a property that could be set to do this for me or some other built in property.
There is no property for this. You can submit a feature request for such a property here: http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Protected/RequestFeature.aspx. One way you can accomlish this is by manually removing the tools before saving the layout file and adding them back afterwards. You can also, like you said, remove the tools after loading the layout file.