Web Parts and Personalization

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Jupiter_Lin — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:12:08 GMT

hi

I have try TeunD 's Code.
But it's wrong at "UserState = New PageState(encodedUserData, PersonalizationScope.User)"
I think the problem is
ObjectStateFormatter can't Deserialize encodedUserData..

Does anyone try out this?
What's the encodedUserData?

thanks

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Jupiter_Lin — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:07:34 GMT

hi

Does anyone try out this?
I have downloaded TeunD's code.
but it's always wrong at
( UserState = New PageState(encodedUserData, PersonalizationScope.User))

The problem is the encodedUserData can't Deserialize by ObjectStateFormatter.

Does anyone know about this?
what's the encodedUserData ?

thanks

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

wyx2000 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:21:14 GMT

that is great! ,hope he can figure out the whole data structure soon.

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Dr.NETjes — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:33:38 GMT

Have a look at this weblog entry by Teun Duynstee: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/teund/archive/2005/03/08/WebPartManager_Storage.aspx

He explains exactly what I was looking for. As I understand he's making some kind of wrapper-object that's able to manage the webparts inside the blob.

--Dion

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

wyx2000 — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:22:44 GMT

I am trying to find out how it works too, I need combine personalization data from different place. I think the logic is in the .NET source code. But It will be great if someone can introduce it here.

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Dr.NETjes — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:34:21 GMT

I know the personalization data is saved in the PageSettings blob, but what exactly is the structure of the serialized PageSettings?

Is it:
a) a serialized WebPartManager (including it webparts)
b) a collection of serialized WebParts
c) a collection of serialized WebPart properties?
d) ...something else?

Re: What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Fredrik N — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 09:20:04 GMT

The personalization data is saved into the PageSettings column. The data is binary serialized and contains where the WebParts is located, and its settings etc.

What is serialized in the PageSettings?

Dr.NETjes — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 22:18:05 GMT

I always wondered what is serialized in the PageSettings blob (stored by the PersonalizationProviders). Is it some kind of dictonary containing WebPart properties?

The reason I want to know, is because it would be nice to load the dynamic webparts of a page (other than the current page), add a new webpart to it, and store it back again.

--Dion