Application State Data using XML

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

/*
Author:      Philip McGahan 
Email:       pmcgahan@hteinc.com, McGahanFL@Earthlink.net
The author maintains no rights or restriction on this code, its reuse or modification.
Date:        09/15/2006
*/


namespace PFM_Wrap_Ctrl_Text_Property
{
    /// <summary>
    /// N:PFM_Wrap_Ctrl_Text_Property: Used as a standard way to get/set values of a control.
    /// </summary> 
    /// 

       /// <summary>
       /// Documentation tags based on http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/C__Documentation_Proess.asp
       /// by Jaiprakash M Bankolli
       /// N denotes the Namespace 
       ///T denotes Type,and includes class, Interface, struct, enum or delegates 
       ///F Denotes the fields of class 
       ///P Denotes the Property indexer or indexed property 
       ///M Denotes the Methods special methods constructor and operator(overloaded) 
       ///E Denotes Events 
       ///! Denotes error string that the C# was unable to resolve some references
       /// </summary>


    public class SetGetCtrlText
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// T:SetGetCtrlText: Used as a standard way to get/set values to text and text-like controls.
        /// Supports: Radio, checkbox and controls that use '.TEXT' property.
        /// ToDo:Enhance this class to support additional control types.
        /// </summary> 
        /// 

        public string getText(Control ctrl)
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// M:getText: Returns a value from a control.
            /// Would need modification to support non Text and Text-like controls
            /// </summary> 
            /// 

           string sValueReturn = null;
           Type ctrlType = ctrl.GetType();
           if (ctrlType.Name == "CheckBox")
           {
              CheckBox tmp = (CheckBox)ctrl;
              sValueReturn = "0";
              if (tmp.Checked == true)
                  sValueReturn = "1";
            }
            else if (ctrlType.Name == "RadioButton")
            {
               RadioButton tmp = (RadioButton)ctrl;
               sValueReturn = "0";
               if (tmp.Checked == true)
                   sValueReturn = "1";
            }
           else if(ctrlType.Name == "ProgressBar")
           {
             //TODO-PROGRESS-BAR
             //example of how to support more controls.
             // 1 of 2.  Save/Restore progress bar
             // I do not want to set default data on a progress bar but if you did you would need code
             // like this.
             //  ProgressBar tmp = (ProgressBar)ctrl;
             //  sValueReturn = tmp.Value.ToString();
           }
           else if (ctrlType.Name == "CheckedListBox")
           {//this shows the limitation of this process.  We can not save a controls state unless
            //it can be converted to a single string.
               StringBuilder sValues = new StringBuilder();
               CheckedListBox tmp = (CheckedListBox)ctrl;
               for (int iIndex = 0; iIndex < tmp.Items.Count; iIndex++)
               {
                   if (tmp.GetItemChecked(iIndex) == false)
                       sValues.Append("0");
                   else
                       sValues.Append("1");
               }
               sValueReturn = sValues.ToString();
           }
           else
           {//for control types that support the Text attribute
                sValueReturn = ctrl.Text;
           }
            return sValueReturn;
        }//getText

        public void setText(Control ctrl, string strValue)
        {
            /// <summary>
            /// M:setText: Sets a value to a control.
            /// Would need modification to support non Text and Text-like controls
            /// </summary> 
            /// 

            Type ctrlType = ctrl.GetType();
            if (ctrlType.Name == "CheckBox")
            {
                bool bState = false;
                if (strValue == "1")
                    bState = true;
                CheckBox tmp = (CheckBox)ctrl;
                tmp.Checked = bState;
            }
            else if (ctrlType.Name == "RadioButton")
            {
                bool bState = false;
                if (strValue == "1")
                    bState = true;
                RadioButton tmp = (RadioButton)ctrl;
                tmp.Checked = bState;
            }
           else if(ctrlType.Name == "ProgressBar")
           {
               //TODO-PROGRESS-BAR
               //example of how to support more controls.
               // 1 of 2.  Save/Restore progress bar
               // I do not want to set default data on a progress bar but if you did you would need code
               // like this.
               //ProgressBar tmp = (ProgressBar)ctrl;
               //tmp.Value = Convert.ToInt16(strValue);
           }
           else if (ctrlType.Name == "CheckedListBox")
           {//this shows the limitation of this process.  We can not save a controls state unless
               //it can be converted to a single string.
               CheckedListBox tmp = (CheckedListBox)ctrl;
               for (int iIndex = 0; iIndex < tmp.Items.Count; iIndex++)
               {
                   if(strValue.Substring(iIndex, 1) == "0")
                       tmp.SetItemCheckState(iIndex, CheckState.Unchecked);
                   else
                       tmp.SetItemCheckState(iIndex, CheckState.Checked);

               }
           }
           else
           {
               ctrl.Text = strValue;
           }
        }//setText
    }//SetGetCtrlText
}//Wrap_ControlValue