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3 replies. Latest Post by tamirk on May 14, 2008.

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clone usercontrol

05-13-2008 1:20 AM |

Hi,

 I want to make a clone of a usercontrol at runtime to get an exqact copy of it.  There seems to be no binaryformatter in Silverlight so I thought about using DataContractSerializer.  My code is below but I get an error when this is run within the usercontrol iteself (it does seem to work on a normal class) - the error says Type not serializable so my first guess is that the XAML may need a tag to allow it to be serialized?

 MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

 

DataContractSerializer ser = new DataContractSerializer(typeof(MyUserControl));ser.WriteObject(ms, this);

 

XmlDictionaryReader reader = XmlDictionaryReader.CreateDictionaryReader(XmlDictionaryReader.Create(ms));

MyUserControl ctl = (MyUserControl)ser.ReadObject(reader);

reader.Close();

ms.Close();

 

Any help would be really appreciated.

 Thanks

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Re: clone usercontrol

05-13-2008 4:02 AM |

 You can use my "reflection" approach to create deep clone of UserControl.

Tamir http://khason.net
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Re: clone usercontrol

05-14-2008 1:56 AM |

thanks - does that clone the contents of member variables from the code behind class too?

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Re: Re: clone usercontrol

05-14-2008 2:01 AM |

yes

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