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                            //------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
//
//  Microsoft Windows Client Platform
//  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2005
// 
//  File:      MarkupObject.cs
// 
//  Contents:  API for iterating a tree of objects for serialization 
//
//  Created:   04/28/2005 [....] 
//
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------

using System; 
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Reflection; 
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Markup; 
using MS.Internal.WindowsBase;

namespace System.Windows.Markup.Primitives
{ 
    /// 
    /// An enumeration class used by serialization to walk the a tree of objects. Markupobject's represent objects 
    /// and using XML based serialization  they would be written as elements. 
    /// 
    public abstract class MarkupObject 
    {
        /// 
        /// Prevent external specialization
        ///  
        [FriendAccessAllowed] // Used by ElementMarkupObject and others in Framework
        internal MarkupObject() { } 
 
        /// 
        /// The CLR type for the object. For example, an item representing a Button would return the equivilient of 
        /// typeof(System.Windows.Button).
        /// 
        public abstract Type ObjectType { get; }
 
        /// 
        /// The instance of the object represented by the this MarkupObject. The type of the object might not be 
        /// ObjectType if the instance represents a factory creating instances of type ObjectType. 
        /// 
        public abstract object Instance { get; } 

        /// 
        /// An enumeration the items properties. Only properties that have significant (serializable) properties are
        /// returned. Properties that have their default value, or are otherwise not visible to serialization, are not 
        /// returned.
        /// 
        /// The first 0 to N properties returned by the Properties enumeration might have the IsConstructorArgument 
        /// set. These properties should be used as the parameters to the ItemType's constructor with N parameters. If
        /// the first property doesn't have the IsConstructorArgument set, the default constructor of the ItemType 
        /// should be used.
        ///
        /// If the MarkupItem is in a dictionary, one of the properties of the item will have an IsKey set to true.
        /// This is the value for the dictionary key. 
        /// 
        public virtual IEnumerable Properties { get { return GetProperties(true /*mapToConstructorArgs*/); } } 
        internal abstract IEnumerable GetProperties(bool mapToConstructorArgs); 

        ///  
        /// Assigns a root context to use for ValueSerializer's that are used to return, for example, the string value
        /// of a property or key. All value serializaers will be looked up via this context if present.
        /// 
        ///  
        /// The context that will be passed to ValueSerializer's and TypeConverter's when converting text to a string
        ///  
        public abstract void AssignRootContext(IValueSerializerContext context); 

        ///  
        /// The attributes associated with the markup item.
        /// 
        public abstract AttributeCollection Attributes { get; }
    } 
}

// File provided for Reference Use Only by Microsoft Corporation (c) 2007.
// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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