Save and Restore Form Position and Size

Question

In a WinForms 2.0 C# application, what is the typical method used for saving and restoring form position and size in an application?

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Answer 1

I'm in the same boat as you, in that I have a number of forms (MDI children, in my case) that I want to preserve the position and size of for each user. From my research, creating application settings at runtime is not supported. (see this blog entry) However, you don't have to stick everything in the main settings file. You can add a Settings file to your project (explained here in the MSDN) and use it via the Properties.Settings object. This won't ease the pain of having to remember to create new settigns for each form, but at least it will keep them together, and not clutter up your main application settings.

As far as using the base class to retrieve the settings... I don't know if you can do it there. What I would (and probably will) do is name each attribute , then use Me.GetType().ToString() (I'm working in VB) to composite the names of the attributes I want to retrieve in the Load() event of each form.