using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Markup;
using System.Xml;
namespace Tango.Editors
{
internal static class FrameworkElementCloner
{
///
/// Clones the specified element.
///
/// The element.
///
public static FrameworkElement Clone(FrameworkElement element)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
var writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, new XmlWriterSettings
{
Indent = true,
ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment,
OmitXmlDeclaration = true,
NamespaceHandling = NamespaceHandling.OmitDuplicates,
});
var mgr = new XamlDesignerSerializationManager(writer);
// HERE BE MAGIC!!!
mgr.XamlWriterMode = XamlWriterMode.Expression;
// THERE WERE MAGIC!!!
XamlWriter.Save(element, mgr);
String xaml = sb.ToString();
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xaml);
XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader);
FrameworkElement cloned = (FrameworkElement)XamlReader.Load(xmlReader) as FrameworkElement;
return cloned;
}
public static String Serialize(FrameworkElement element)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
var writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, new XmlWriterSettings
{
Indent = true,
ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment,
OmitXmlDeclaration = true,
NamespaceHandling = NamespaceHandling.OmitDuplicates,
});
var mgr = new XamlDesignerSerializationManager(writer);
// HERE BE MAGIC!!!
mgr.XamlWriterMode = XamlWriterMode.Expression;
// THERE WERE MAGIC!!!
XamlWriter.Save(element, mgr);
String xaml = sb.ToString();
return xaml;
}
public static FrameworkElement Deserialize(String xaml)
{
StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(xaml);
XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(stringReader);
FrameworkElement cloned = (FrameworkElement)XamlReader.Load(xmlReader) as FrameworkElement;
return cloned;
}
}
}