>>Hi,
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>>Does Visual Studio 2010 have a way to convert some existing XAML into C# code? I want to do a few [XAML-related] things via code so that I can make changes at run-time depending upon user privileges. I figure I might save some time writing code if I could just automatically convert the existing XAML into a code snippet.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Thanks,
>>Guy
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>I haven't seen one, and since not all XAML can be properly represented in code I'm not sure you will find one. (Most can, but not all)
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>You also loose the ability to use a designer and tend to complicate things when you move stuff to code behind. I generally restrict code behind view creation to things that cannot be done in XAML. Which is actually pretty rare.
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>You might want to check out ContentTemplateSelectors I think that's what you will want for this. (But that's just a guess without seeing your XAML)

I agree... Content selectors are probably the way to go ...