Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Serialization with XAML

This book has five chapters dedicated to the Windows Presentation Foundation technology, due to its importance in modern application development. You learned what XAML is and how you use it to define applications’ user interface. XAML offers other advantages that can be taken in completely different scenarios; one of these is serialization. The System.Xaml.dll assembly implements the System.Xaml namespace that offers the XamlServices class whose purpose is providing members for reading and writing XAML in serialization scenarios. Because XAML is substantially Xml code that adheres to specific schemas, serialization output will be under Xml format. The good news is that you are not limited in using XAML serialization ...