XAML Unleashed

Writing to Live Objects

The XAMLPAD sample doesn’t convert XAML to live objects as-is; it makes a few modifications to the XAML content to ensure that a wider range of WPF XAML can be rendered successfully. Specifically, it makes two modifications to the content:

It removes all event members, because unless the handler can be located, XamlObjectWriter would fail with an exception. Note that XamlObjectWriter has a RootObjectInstance property that could be set to an object with appropriate event handlers, but stripping out the events is the easiest approach, and usually just fine for a XAML experimentation tool.

It converts any Window element ...