Saving and Restoring Application Settings

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//
// Savior - Simplify Saving and Restoring Application Settings
//
// by Jim Hollenhorst, jim@ultrapico.com
// Copyright Ultrapico, March 2003
// http://www.ultrapico.com
//
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using System;
using System.Drawing;

namespace SaveAndRestore
{
	/// Settings is the class in which all application settings are stored. This must
	/// be customized for each application and multiple such classes may be defined
	/// to facilitate more complex scenarios. The suggested name for the class is
	/// "Settings", but any name may be used since an instantiation of this class is
	/// passed to another class ("Savior") to do the work.
	/// 
	/// In order to support binary serialization to a file, the class should be marked
	/// with the [Serializable] attribute, as shown here
	/// 
	/// All default values should be specified in this class. These will be used if the
	/// corresponding information is not found in the registry.
	
	/// <summary>
	/// Any data that is desired to be saved should be stored in this class
	/// as a public field. It is suggested that most variables be given default
	/// values within this class. The class should be defined with the "Serializable"
	/// attribute to facilitate file serialization. Properties should not be defined.
	/// </summary>

	[Serializable]
	public class Settings
	{
		public string Text="Try changing this string!";
		public bool Check=true;
		public bool Radio=false;
		public decimal TheNumber=55;
		public Color BackColor=Color.Aqua;
		public Point Location = new Point(100,100);
		public Size TheSize=new Size(530,435);
		public Thing thing = Thing.Frog;
		public string[] SomeStrings=
		{
			"You can't change",
			"these but you can",
			"check to see if they",
			"are being saved and",
			"restored properly!"
		};
		public byte[] SomeBytes={1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29};
		public bool[] Truth={false,true,true,false,true};
		public string[] Headers={"Type","Name","Age","Master"};
		public int[] Orders={0,1,2,3};
		public int[] Widths={70,50,50,70};
	}
}