WPF, Silverlight and C# 3.0 object initializers

posted by  hjwin (10)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

XAML is definitely the way to go whenever possible when you're writing WPF and Silverlight apps, due to its amenability to tooling, analyzability, side-effect-free-ness, etc.  However, there are occasionally (or often, depending on what you're doing) times when you need to construct WPF and Silverlight objects via code, and pure XAML expression doesn't do the trick.  A common example is when you're in a programmatic loop, and you need to generate an object on each iteration of the loop; or when you have something dynamically varying at runtime and you create based on that.  S