Element Tree and Serialization

WPF programming elements exist in an element tree relationship to each other. The element tree can be further divided into two discrete yet parallel trees: the logical tree and the visual tree. Serialization in WPF involves saving the state of these two trees as well as application state and writing it to a file, typically as XAML.

In This Section

• Element Tree

• Serialization Limitations of XamlWriter.Save

• Element Initialization For Elements Not in a Tree

• Element Tree and Serialization How-to Topics

Reference

System.Windows.Markup

LogicalTreeHelper

VisualTreeHelper

Related Sections

• WPF Architecture

• XAML

• Base Elements

• Properties

• Events

• Input and Commands

• Resources

• Styling and Templating

• WPF Fundamentals: Content Models

• Threading Model