Type Converters versus Markup Extensions
Type converters and markup extensions are similar in that they are used by XAML type systems and XAML writers to render object graph components.
Type converters are classes that derive from the TypeConverter class in the .NET Framework. The TypeConverter class converts a text representation of an object (such as an attribute value or a XAML value node) into an object. You can also use a TypeConverter to serialize an object value to a text representation. The TypeConverter class was present in the .NET Framework long before the development of XAML. Markup extensions, on the other hand, are classes that derive from the MarkupExtension class. Markup extensions are a concept that originated with XAML.
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