Serialization of Bindings

In the September CTP, there's an enum, forget what exactly it's called -- SerializationMode? ExpressionMode? Something like that. Value means evaluate the binding and right out that resulting value, Expression means right out something kind of like the {Binding} statement.

That said, we're phasing out everything but Value -- there's a lot of cases SaveAsXml can't support "expression" serialization because the data just doesn't exist at runtime (e.g., the StaticResource example) or doesn't have any serializable representation (e.g., programmatically setting binding.Source to a non-serializable object). We'll make this change in the upcoming Beta 2 release -- not coincidentally, that's also the first release where serialization will look through TypeDescriptors, which gives designer tools a chance to influence serialization.

NickKramer at 2007-9-9 >