Have you ever thought “it would be really cool if I could create a field control for my publishing page that would interact with all the other field controls"? I’ll bet you have, I know you don’t want to admit it because the idea is madness but I’ll bet you have! (No? I guess I’m out on my own with that one then?) I’ve only really gotten into the latest version of Silverlight in the past few weeks and I have to say I’m impressed. The potential for integration with SharePoint is huge and that’s before we consider the...
When using the XmlAnyElementAttribute to serialize/deserialize an Xml file in Silverlight, you’ll come up against a minor problem. the MSDN documentation states: Specifies that the member (a field that returns an array of XmlElement or XmlNode objects) contains objects that represent any XML element that has no corresponding member in the object being serialized or deserialized. However, in SilverLight you don’t have wither of these objects, you’re restricted to what’s available via the System.Xml.Linq namespace Luckily the XElement object does the job, so code like this will work: ...