Getting XAML of the current screen in silverlight 2

I am trying to send my dynamically created silverlight 2 page/image to a an ASP.net web service to render it as an bitmap image.

I can see many examples how to get the XAML using javascript (see here) in version 1 of silverlight but I have a few differences.

a) I am using silverlight 2 RC1
b) I have dynamically add controls to the page in c#
c) I would prefer to use c# to get the new XAML to keep all the coed in one place.

does anyone know how to extract the XAML from a control or the page in c#?

Thank you

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Update: This is now possible under silverlight 3 using a writable bitmap to save the XAML as a JPEG see my blog post here: http://blog.blueboxes.co.uk/2009/07/21/rendering-xaml-to-a-jpeg-using-silverlight-3/

From stackoverflow

• Hi John, unfortunately there is not a method for a .ToXaml() on an element tree unfortunately. You can use VisualTreeHelper to build such a method and recurse through a particular element I suppose.

  John : This is now possible under silverlight 3 see post for update

• Check out this link to see if it will help you at all. http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/ralph/Blog/archive/2008/11/21/snapshot-of-xaml-control-save-to-image.aspx

• SilverlightContrib has a XamlWriter class that can extract the XAML from a live control.

  It's free.

  The link is: http://silverlightcontrib.org

  The code would be something like:

  
  // using SilverlightContrib.Xaml;
  
              var cb = new GroupBox();
              StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
              XamlWriterSettings settings = new XamlWriterSettings();
  
              using (XamlWriter writer = XamlWriter.CreateWriter(sb, false, settings))
              {
                  writer.WriteElement(cb);
              }
  
              string result = sb.ToString();