Using function tag with Magnifier

[Quant]

Dear Steema,
I am using Moving Average function on my chart. also keeping object of class in tag of Moving Average. This works fine but when I am enabling magnifier tool. Chart crashes with error.
Kindly find the Simple Sample Project from below link.

SeriesTagMagnifier.zip

Simple Sample Project

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[Christopher]

Hello,

The problem is with the line:

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tMovAvg.Tag = MyPopup;

If you comment this line out, there is no problem. The issue is that the Magnifier tool serializes the Chart by binary serialization, and a System.Windows.Forms.Form cannot be serialized. You can assign other values to Tag and have them serialized, e.g.

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object o = 50;
tMovAvg.Tag = o;

[Quant]

Dear Steema,
We require to keep propertybag class object related to that particular series. We are placing n number of moving averages on chart and keeping all settings related with respective function. This works as expected without any problem except The Magnifier tool where we get error. We cant serialize propertybag class. So kindly resolve issue in Magnifier tool.

[Christopher]

We cant serialize propertybag class. So kindly resolve issue in Magnifier tool.

This problem is generic to serialization, and is not specific to the Magnifier tool. You can see it is a generic problem by running code such as the following:

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    private void InitializeChart()
    {
      Form newForm = new Form();
      Bar series = new Bar(tChart1.Chart);
      series.FillSampleValues();
      series.Tag = newForm;
    }

    private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
      tChart1.Export.Template.Save(ms);

      ms.Position = 0;
      tChart2.Import.Template.Load(ms);
    }

I'm afraid the only way to avoid this problem is to avoid trying to serialize the System.Windows.Forms.Form class.