Element Tree and Serialization

WPF programming elements often exist in some form of tree relationship to each other. For instance, an application UI created in XAML can be conceptualized as an element tree. The element tree can be further divided into two discrete yet sometimes 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

• Trees in WPF

• Serialization Limitations of XamlWriter.Save

• Initialization for Object Elements Not in an Element Tree

• Element Tree and Serialization How-to Topics

Reference

System.Windows.Markup

LogicalTreeHelper

VisualTreeHelper

Related Sections

• WPF Architecture

• XAML

• Base Elements

• Properties

• Events (WPF)

• Input and Commands

• Resources (WPF)

• Styling and Templating

• Content Models

• Threading Model