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DataStorage: Store settings type-safe

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Shows how to use the DataStorage classes to generate type-safe settings classes.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing;

namespace Aga.Controls
{
	public static class TextHelper
	{
		public static StringAlignment TranslateAligment(HorizontalAlignment aligment)
		{
			if (aligment == HorizontalAlignment.Left)
				return StringAlignment.Near;
			else if (aligment == HorizontalAlignment.Right)
				return StringAlignment.Far;
			else
				return StringAlignment.Center;
		}

        public static TextFormatFlags TranslateAligmentToFlag(HorizontalAlignment aligment)
        {
            if (aligment == HorizontalAlignment.Left)
                return TextFormatFlags.Left;
            else if (aligment == HorizontalAlignment.Right)
                return TextFormatFlags.Right;
            else
                return TextFormatFlags.HorizontalCenter;
        }

		public static TextFormatFlags TranslateTrimmingToFlag(StringTrimming trimming)
		{
			if (trimming == StringTrimming.EllipsisCharacter)
				return TextFormatFlags.EndEllipsis;
			else if (trimming == StringTrimming.EllipsisPath)
				return TextFormatFlags.PathEllipsis;
			if (trimming == StringTrimming.EllipsisWord)
				return TextFormatFlags.WordEllipsis;
			if (trimming == StringTrimming.Word)
				return TextFormatFlags.WordBreak;
			else
				return TextFormatFlags.Default;
		}
	}
}

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pdfforge GbR
Germany Germany
Philip is a Software Architect with severaly years of experience. He studied business IT in the University of Wedel, Germany, and has reached his Masters degree in 2010. Back in 2002, he started his so far best-known software PDFCreator. The second developer joined two years later and since then, both constantly improve this piece of open source software.

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