To XAML, with love (an experiment with XAML Serialization in Silverlight)

’m a big fan of XAML.  It provides a nice, declarative, toolable way of defining UI, encourages separation of UI logic and application logic, and is flexible enough to allow an impressive amount of expressiveness.  In addition to being a way to describe a user interface, XAML can be used as a serialization format for arbitrary CLR objects.  A little over a month ago, as I was building out a