Serialize an Activity to xaml - xaml

Question

I have Googled a bit, and cannot seem to find any examples of Xaml-fying Activities - good, bad, or otherwise!
public static string ToXaml (this Activity activity)
{
// i would use ActivityXamlServices to go from Xaml
// to activity, but how to go other way? documentation
// is slim, and cannot infer proper usage of
// ActivityXamlServices from Xml remarks :S
string xaml = string.Empty;
return xaml;
}
Hints, tips, pointers would be welcome :)
NOTE: so found this. Will work through and update once working. Anyone wanna beat me to the punch, by all means. Better yet, if you can find a way to be rid of WorkflowDesigner, seems odd it is required.

Answer 1

Alright, so worked through this forum posting.
You may Xaml-fy [ie transform an instance to declarative Xaml] a well-known Activity via
public static string ToXaml (this Activity activity)
{
StringBuilder xaml = new StringBuilder ();
using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create (
xaml,
new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true, OmitXmlDeclaration = true, }))
using (XamlWriter xamlWriter = new XamlXmlWriter (
xmlWriter,
new XamlSchemaContext ()))
using (XamlWriter xamlServicesWriter =
ActivityXamlServices.CreateBuilderWriter (xamlWriter))
{
ActivityBuilder activityBuilder = new ActivityBuilder
{
Implementation = activity
};
XamlServices.Save (xamlServicesWriter, activityBuilder);
}
return xaml.ToString ();
}
Your Xaml may contain certain artifacts, such as references to System.Activities.Presentation namespace appearing as xmlns:sap="...". If this presents an issue in your solution, read the source link above - there is a means to inject directives to ignore unrecognized namespaces.
Will leave this open for a while. If anyone can find a better solution, or improve upon this, please by all means :)

Answer 2

How about XamlServices.Save(filename, activity)?

Answer 3

Based on the other solution (for VS2010B2) and some Reflectoring, I found a solution for VS2010RC. Since XamlWriter is abstract in the RC, the new way to serialize an activity tree is this:
public static string ToXaml (this Activity activity)
{
var xamlBuilder = new StringBuilder();
var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(xamlBuilder,
new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true, OmitXmlDeclaration = true });
using (xmlWriter)
{
var xamlXmlWriter =
new XamlXmlWriter(xmlWriter, new XamlSchemaContext());
using (xamlXmlWriter)
{
XamlWriter xamlWriter =
ActivityXamlServices.CreateBuilderWriter(xamlXmlWriter);
using (xamlWriter)
{
var activityBuilder =
new ActivityBuilder { Implementation = sequence };
XamlServices.Save(xamlWriter, activityBuilder);
}
}
}
return xamlBuilder.ToString();
}