Store Custom Settings
Since Q3 2015 version of UI for ASP.NET AJAX a new functionality of RadPersistenceFramework was added which allows you to store custom settings. Until this version all settings of a control were persisted and removing a single setting was not supported. Nevertheless, currently there is two events which allow you to remove a single setting or all of them. The first event is called LoadSettings and fires after calling RadPersistenceManager.LoadState method but before actually loading the settings so the user can remove the desired settings (if any). The second event is called SaveSettings and fires after calling RadPersistenceManager.SaveState method but before actually writing the settings using the chosen provider so the user can prevent any of these from saving in the corresponding storage. Both events have Settings property in the event arguments which should be used for accessing/modifying the RadControlState collection. The custom settings (if any) will also be available through that property.
Accessing control settings
In order to get a control settings collection we have added two methods. the first one is FindByUniqueId that returns the first RadControlState instance which matches the specified unique id. The second one named FindByUniqueKey is the same as the previous one but the difference is that in some cases it is possible that there are two different controls with the same unique id's. For that case, the persistence framework will generate that unique key. These methods will work for List
The example below demonstrates how to access the grid settings and remove the current page from persisting.
protected void RadPersistenceManager1_SaveSettings(object sender, PersistenceManagerSaveAllStateEventArgs e)
{
var gridSetting = e.Settings.FindByUniqueId("RadGrid1");
if (gridSetting != null)
{
for (int i = 0; i < gridSetting.ControlSettings.Count; i++)
{
if (gridSetting.ControlSettings[i].Name.Contains("CurrentPageIndex"))
{
gridSetting.ControlSettings.Remove(gridSetting.ControlSettings[i]);
}
}
}
}
Protected Sub RadPersistenceManager1_SaveSettings(sender As Object, e As PersistenceManagerSaveAllStateEventArgs)
Dim gridSetting = e.Settings.FindByUniqueId("RadGrid1")
If gridSetting IsNot Nothing Then
For i As Integer = 0 To gridSetting.ControlSettings.Count - 1
If gridSetting.ControlSettings(i).Name.Contains("CurrentPageIndex") Then
gridSetting.ControlSettings.Remove(gridSetting.ControlSettings(i))
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
The same approach could be used in case you need to persist the setting but you do not want to apply it to the appropriate control. For this purpose you have to use LoadSettings event.
Remove control settings
The aforementioned code snippet demonstrates how to remove a single setting from the setting collection. Nevertheless, there are cases when you do not want to persist or load all settings of a control. For such cases you can use RemoveByUniqueId and RemoveByUniqueKey methods. The first one removes the first RadControlsState instance from the collection which matches the given unique id. Returns true if successful, otherwise the method will return false. The second one do the same as the previous one only this time this will work with unique key instead of unique id.
protected void RadPersistenceManager1_LoadSettings(object sender, PersistenceManagerSaveAllStateEventArgs e)
{
bool isSuccess = e.Settings.RemoveByUniqueId("RadGrid2");
if (isSuccess) { doSomething(); }
}
Protected Sub RadPersistenceManager1_LoadSettings(sender As Object, e As PersistenceManagerSaveAllStateEventArgs)
Dim isSuccess As Boolean = e.Settings.RemoveByUniqueId("RadGrid2")
If isSuccess Then
doSomething()
End If
End Sub