XamlReader in .Net 3.5 SP1

If you've done any WPF development involving dynamic object creation from XAML, you're probably familiar with XamlReader.Load().

There are several overloads which take a stream or an XmlReader. This usually leads to an excessively verbose syntax in my code, where I generally have the XAML string in memory:

MyClass myObject = (MyClass) XamlReader.Load(XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(myObjectXamlString)));


With SP1, we now have the object of using XamlReader.Parse() which simply takes in a string. All of my verbose code that follows the style above now becomes:

MyClass myObject = (MyClass) XamlReader.Parse(myObjectXamlString);

Life keeps getting better and better!