You often read on the web that the DependencyObjects are not marked as serializable and that this is a major drawback of them...
But there is a easy way to perform a serialization of these object : use XAMLWriter and XAMLReader :
public class MyDependencyObject : DependencyObject
{
public static readonly DependencyProperty MyDependencyPropertyProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("MyDependencyProperty", typeof(String), typeof(MyDependencyObject));
public String MyDependencyProperty
{
get { return (String)GetValue(MyDependencyObject.MyDependencyPropertyProperty); }
set { SetValue(MyDependencyObject.MyDependencyPropertyProperty, value); }
}
}
...
MyDependencyObject obj = new MyDependencyObject();
obj.MyDependencyProperty = "One love";
String serializedString = XamlWriter.Save(obj);
Console.WriteLine(serializedString);
It will produce something like this :
<MyDependencyObject MyDependencyProperty="One love" xmlns="clr-namespace:ANTOINE.Jonathan;assembly=ANTOINE.Jonathan" /> :)
