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Dynamic activities and Windows Workfl ow Foundation 4 are explained in Chapter 44,
“W i n d o w s Wo rk fl o w F o u n d a t i o n 4 .”
A simple example to load XAML dynamically from a fi le to create an object tree and to attach the object
tree to a container element, such as a StackPanel , is shown here.
FileStream stream = File.OpenRead("Demo1.xaml");
object tree = System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.Load(stream);
container1.Children.Add(tree as UIElement);
summary
In this chapter, you ’ ve seen the core functionality of XAML and some specifi c characteristics such as
dependency properties, attached properties, and markup extensions. You have seen the extensibility of
XAML, which serves as the base for other technologies such as WPF and WF. In other chapters that make
use of XAML, you can see a lot of different uses for these XAML characteristics.
You can read more about XAML and see XAML in action in a lot of chapters in this book. In particular,
you should read Chapters 35 and 36 for WPF, Chapter 37 for XPS, Chapter 38 for Silverlight, and
Chapter 44 for Windows Workfl ow Foundation.
The next chapter is about MEF, the Managed Extensibility Framework.
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