C# : Save ListView Items in XML file

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Hello ,

It's is possible to save listView Items in xml file ?

(each colomun represent node )
Then how we can save node attributes also

for exp :

HTML

<Class  id="1",  name="Computer Science">
  <Subject  id="1" , title ="Java">
   <chapter  id="1" />
  </Subject>
  <Subject id="2" , title ="c#" >
<chapter  id="1" />
<chapter  id="2" />
<chapter  id="3" />
  </Subject>
  <Subject   id="3" , title ="UML"/>
</Class>

Then we have in ou our listview colomun : class , subject , chapter , then value of attributes in rows and i want to select some rows and write them in xml file ? It's possible ? if yes How ?

Am beginner ... small one :(

Posted 30-Oct-14 3:30am

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Marc Koutzarov · Answer 1 · 2014-10-30T03:50:00

You should use the System.Xml.Serialization namespace to serialize and deserialize your listview object. See MSDN[^] for more information.

using System.Xml.Serialization;

/// assuming  myListView is your listview object 


public void SaveToXml(string myXmlFilePath){

       XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ListViewItemCollection));

       using (FileStream stream = File.OpenWrite(myXmlFilePath)){
       serializer.Serialize(stream, myListView.Items);}
}




public void LoadFromXML(string myXmlFilePath){
              if (File.Exists( myXmlFilePath))
                      {
                             XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(ListViewItemCollection));
 
                              using (FileStream stream = File.OpenRead( myXmlFilePath))
                              {
                                     myListView.Items = (ListViewItemCollection)serializer.Deserialize(stream);
                              };
                     };
}

George Jonsson · Answer 2 · 2014-10-30T03:59:00

Of course it is possible and not too difficult to achieve either.

C#

// You need to loop through the rows in the ListView, e.g. ListView lv.
foreach (ListViewItem item in lv.Items) 
// Use lv.SelectedItems if you only want to save a few items
{
    foreach (SubListViewItem subItem in item.SubItems)
    {
        // Create an XElement for each sub item.
    }
}
// Save the data to file

I recommend to use XDocument and XElement.
Here is a link to MSDN for further help: XDocument Class Overview[^]
There are some pretty good examples there.

[Update]
A little example to help you along

C#

// Initialize a listview with 3 columns with data
ListViewItem row1 = listView1.Items.Add("Row1");
row1.SubItems.Add("Col1_2");
row1.SubItems.Add("Col1_3");

ListViewItem row2 = listView1.Items.Add("Row2");
row2.SubItems.Add("Col2_2");
row2.SubItems.Add("Col2_3");

ListViewItem row3 = listView1.Items.Add("Row3");
row3.SubItems.Add("Col3_2");
row3.SubItems.Add("Col3_3");

ListViewItem row4 = listView1.Items.Add("Row4");
row4.SubItems.Add("Col4_2");
row4.SubItems.Add("Col4_3");

XElement xeRoot = new XElement("Root");
foreach (ListViewItem item in listView1.SelectedItems)
{
    XElement xeRow = new XElement(item.Text);
    foreach (ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem subItem in item.SubItems)
    {
        XElement xeCol = new XElement(subItem.Text);
        xeRow.Add(xeCol);
        // To add attributes use XAttributes
    }
    xeRoot.Add(xeRow);
}

// I leave the saving to file to you

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