How can I serialize xaml "Brush"?

Question

How can or what is best used for serialization System.Windows.Media.Brush?

Answer 1

Here is a good discussion on how to serialize WPF:

http://statestreetgang.net/post/2008/06/XAML-Serialization-FTW.aspx

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/// <summary>
/// Serializes the specified object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="toSerialize">Object to serialize.</param>
/// <returns>The object serialized to XAML</returns>
private string Serialize(object toSerialize)
{
    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
    // You might want to wrap these in #if DEBUG 
    settings.Indent = true;
    settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;
    // this gets rid of the XML version 
    settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
    // buffer to a stringbuilder
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(sb, settings);
    // Need moar documentation on the manager, plox MSDN
    XamlDesignerSerializationManager manager = new XamlDesignerSerializationManager(writer);
    manager.XamlWriterMode = XamlWriterMode.Expression;
    // its extremely rare for this to throw an exception
    XamlWriter.Save(toSerialize, manager);

    return sb.ToString();
}

/// <summary>
/// Deserializes an object from xaml.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xamlText">The xaml text.</param>
/// <returns>The deserialized object</returns>
/// <exception cref="XmlException">Thrown if the serialized text is not well formed XML</exception>
/// <exception cref="XamlParseException">Thrown if unable to deserialize from xaml</exception>
private object Deserialize(string xamlText)
{
    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
    // may throw XmlException
    doc.LoadXml(xamlText);
    // may throw XamlParseException
    return XamlReader.Load(new XmlNodeReader(doc));
}