save own settings class using typeConverter

Question

Hello everybody,

I have made a own class that derives from the system.forms.form class. Now I want to save this own class in the my.settings collection. That works fine as long as I don't shutdown the program, but as soon as I end the program, this form is lost and the next time I start the application the value is nothing.

So it seems that there is a problem with serializing the form and now I try to use an own TypeConverter class and associate it with the form class. In my typeconverter I overload the function convertToString and convertFromString. And what should happen know is that when the settings get saved, the settings class should call the convertToString function of my own Type Converter (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8eyb2ct1(VS.80).aspx).

Here is the code I use:

<System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter(GetType(AskAnswerConverter))> Class AskAnswer
      Dim actualword As DataRow
      Private showExample As EExampleShowings = EExampleShowings.ShowWithAnswer
      Private UserGaveRightAnswer As Boolean
      Private _showWordsLeft As Boolean = False
      'Some Methods and Properties
End Class

Public Class AskAnswerConverter
Inherits System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter
    Public Overloads Function convertToString(ByVal value As Object) As String
        If value.GetType Is GetType(AskAnswer) Then
            Return "successful"
        Else
            Return Nothing
        End If
    End Function

    Public Overloads Function convertFromString(ByVal value As String) As Object
         Return New AskAnswer()
    End Function

    Public Sub New()
         MyBase.New()
    End Sub
End Class

What I want to happen now is, that when I load an instance of AskAnswer in the my.settings class and I use the my.settings.save method, an Instance of my AskAnswerConverter is created and used to save the settings. But not even the New Method gets called.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing false?