It appears that your code will allow the save of the nodes but I can't seem to find a way to convert it back to a value the treeview will like. I am using Option strict on which won't convert it implicitly.



>I guess you can store any kind of "object" to a column in a data table. I tried to store Nodes collection in the following example. In the same fashin, you can either store XML as String of Stream.
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>DataTable loDT  = new DataTable();
>DataColumn loCL = new DataColumn();
>loDT.Columns.Add(loCL);
>DataRow	 loROW = loDT.NewRow();
>loROW[0] = this.treeView1.Nodes;
>loDT.Rows.Add(loROW);
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>>Has anyone figured out how to generate a xml stream to a column in a dataset instead of to a file?
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>>I am saving treeview information to an xml document and do to customer contraints, I need to save the xml to a column in a dataset and be able to read it back to recreate the treeview.
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>>I am using the following code in VB.Net to accomplish part of the process although it only writes to a file.
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>>        Dim formatter As SoapFormatter = New SoapFormatter()
>>        Dim stream As Stream = New FileStream("c:\Free.xml", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None)
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>>        Dim root As New TreeNode()
>>        Dim node As TreeNode
>>        For Each node In treForceStructure.Nodes
>>            root.Nodes.Add(CType(node.Clone(), TreeNode))
>>        Next node
>>        formatter.Serialize(stream, root)
>>        stream.Close()
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>>Any ideas on how to accomplish this? I can't seem to find any info on it.
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>>Thanks,
>>Pat.