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

namespace Aga.Controls
{
    public static class ResourceHelper
    {
        // VSpilt Cursor with Innerline (symbolisize hidden column)
        private static Cursor _dVSplitCursor = GetCursor(Properties.Resources.DVSplit);
        public static Cursor DVSplitCursor
        {
            get { return _dVSplitCursor; }
        }

		private static GifDecoder _loadingIcon = GetGifDecoder(Properties.Resources.loading_icon);
		public static GifDecoder LoadingIcon
		{
			get { return _loadingIcon; }
		}

        /// <summary>
        /// Help function to convert byte[] from resource into Cursor Type 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="data"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        private static Cursor GetCursor(byte[] data)
        {
            using (MemoryStream s = new MemoryStream(data))
                return new Cursor(s);
        }

		/// <summary>
		/// Help function to convert byte[] from resource into GifDecoder Type 
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="data"></param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		private static GifDecoder GetGifDecoder(byte[] data)
		{
			using(MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(data))
				return new GifDecoder(ms, true);
		}

    }
}

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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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