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How to serialize HtmlElement object in file stream??
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use this code to serialize any object into a file stream ... in your case replace the Object type into HtmlElement

Object obj=new Object();
     XmlSerializer sw = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Object));
     FileStream fs = new FileStream("**Full FilePath**", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
     sw.Serialize(fs, obj);
     fs.Close();


hope this helped,good luck.
 
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yogeshcgs 11-Aug-10 11:33am    
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
HtmlElement obj;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

XmlSerializer sw = new XmlSerializer(typeof(HtmlElement ));
FileStream fs = new FileStream("1.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
sw.Serialize(fs, obj);
fs.Close();
}

private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
HtmlElementCollection col = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("a");
foreach (HtmlElement htmlel in col)
{
if (htmlel != null)
{
obj = htmlel;
return;
}
}
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
webBrowser1.Navigate("www.digg.com");
}
}
}


please see the code.

i am getting error....
System.Windows.Forms.HtmlElement cannot be serialized because it does not have a parameterless constructor.
yogeshcgs 11-Aug-10 11:34am    
please help me out. its very urgent.........
thanks a lot, i will check it out.
 
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hmmmmm ... yeah XML serialization is not gonna work for you if the class does not have parameterless constructor :sigh: one way to go around that is to create a wrapper class for the HTMLElement class like the code below and serialize the wrapper class
public class HtmlElementWrapper
       {
           public HtmlElementWrapper()
           { }

           public HtmlElementWrapper(HtmlElement htmlElement)
           {
               this.HtmlElement = htmlElement;
           }

           public HtmlElement HtmlElement
           { get; set; }
       }

or you can use Binary Serialization check out this article for that

Object Serialization using C#

good luck
 
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yogeshcgs 11-Aug-10 14:11pm    
it did not work error.......
yogeshcgs 11-Aug-10 23:47pm    
i tried this, but it does not work..............
Samuel Cherinet 12-Aug-10 9:19am    
poooh ... don't know at this point tried it on binary serialization as well and unfortunately HTMLElement is not marked as serializable. at this point the only thing I can ask you is "what is the need for you to serialize an Xml element?? " I mean you can use the HtmlElement.OuterHtml to get the element as plain string and save it, because that is what XMLSerialization basically is going to do.

other than that I hope one of those fine .net developers in here would resolve this issue for you"

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