Possible to push pure XAML from C#?

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So I'm stumbling upon some issues where the standard way of creating XAML from C# seems to refuse to do things my way, so I was wondering if there were a way to add a string containing XAML from C#, not unlike the way one would in PHP using echo or pring commands to dump html.

thanks for any help!

-frank

Posted 7-Apr-12 12:36pm

Frank R. Haugen

Updated 7-Apr-12 12:46pm

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Clifford Nelson · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-07T17:31:00

Here is what I do:

XML

string Xaml= @"<SolidColorBrush xmlns=""http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"" Color=""AliceBlue""/">;
          StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(Xaml);
          System.Xml.XmlReader xmlReader = new System.Xml.XmlTextReader(stringReader);
          Brush rslt = XamlReader.Load(xmlReader) as Brush;

/// <summary>
      /// Allow the UI dispatcher thread to spin
      /// </summary>
      private static void DoEvents()
      {
          DispatcherFrame frame = new DispatcherFrame(true);
          Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke
              (
                  DispatcherPriority.Background,
                  (SendOrPostCallback)delegate(object arg)
                  {
                      var dispatcherFrame = arg as DispatcherFrame;
                      dispatcherFrame.Continue = false;
                  },
                  frame
              );
          Dispatcher.PushFrame(frame);
      }

Frank R. Haugen · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-07T12:45:00

So my awesome D&D buddy "Gygaxiss the Fayhunter" just sent me to: http://oldschooldotnet.blogspot.com/2008/11/dynamically-dding-xaml-strings-from-c.html[^]

It had exactly what I was looking for so sorry for posting "needlessly".

Giving a fully fledge explaination of the solution:

simply do this:

C#

// create the XAML-code as a string
    string newEllipse = "<Ellipse xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation' xmlns:x='http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml' Stroke='Black' Fill='Red' Height='30' Width='30' Margin='10,10,10,10'></Ellipse>";

// Make string valid XML
    XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(newEllipse));

// Add the XAML to the design
    RootElementName.Children.Add((Ellipse)XamlReader.Load(reader));

Apparently there are namespace issues if one does not add the "xmlns...".

-frank

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