How does editor \ preview for Windows Phone work in Visual Studio works?

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How is the image of the Page's XAML gets generated? Is it running a virtual machine and it's grabbing a snapshot? Does it send the XAML? Any details of that would be welcome.

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How is the image of the Page's XAML gets generated?

Visual studio renders the XAML using platform's reference DLLs + compiled binaries of your app.

Is it running a virtual machine and it's grabbing a snapshot?

Nope, it all works in the same visual studio process.