I have a need to save a charting control's state to a binary / xml format that will be loaded in the future. There is a need to support backwards compatibility for this format in the future as our saved project files may be loaded with upgraded versions of nevron charts at some point in time.

Given this is it safest to save the control state in the XML format vs. binary (which has a benefit of compression I imagine) in order to ensure that the saved state can be re-loaded in the future even with a new version of Nevron Charts?

Thanks!

~Jeremy