Any way to extract underlying Xaml?

Is there anyway to extract the underlying xaml from a control.

IE. I have a textbox named fooBox. Can I get xaml back from the textbox at runtime that represents the textbox?

From stackoverflow

• Yes - Josh Smith does this in his Mole tool: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/MoleForWPF.aspx

• This shows you the full lifecycle (from control to XAML back to control). As you can see,

  string s = XamlWriter.Save(value);
  

  is the interesting part you might care about.

      /// <summary>
      /// Clones a given UIElement.  Please note that any events, animations, etc
      /// on the source item may not carry over to the cloned object.
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="value">UIElement to clone.</param>
      /// <returns>A shallow clone of the source element.</returns>
      public static UIElement CloneUIElement(UIElement value)
      {
          if (value == null)
          {
              return null;
          }
  
          string s = XamlWriter.Save(value);
          StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(s);
          XmlReader xmlReader = XmlTextReader.Create(stringReader, new XmlReaderSettings());
          return (UIElement)XamlReader.Load(xmlReader);
      }
  

  JRobbers : This worked flawlessly. And was very fast too. Thanks!