Load XAML File Dynamically

XAML is mostly used at design-time but there may be a time when you want to create XAML dynamically and/or load XAML in your code. The XamlWriter and the XamlReader classes are used to create and read XAML in code.

using System.Windows.Markup;

The XamlWriter.Save method takes an object as an input and creates a string containing the valid XAML.

// Create a Dynamic Button.

Button helloButton = new Button();

helloButton.Height = 50;

helloButton.Width = 100;

helloButton.Background = Brushes.AliceBlue;

helloButton.Content = "Click Me";

// Save the Button to a string.

string dynamicXAML = XamlWriter.Save(helloButton);

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The XamlReader.Load method reads the XAML input in the specified Stream and returns an object that is the root of the corresponding object tree.

// Load the button

XmlReader xmlReader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(dynamicXAML));

Button readerLoadButton = (Button)XamlReader.Load(xmlReader);   

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