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Nadeem
Nadeem

Reputation: 665

Can we integrate a WinForms application with a WPF application?

I want to integrate two existing applications into one. One of those apps is built on Windows Forms and the other on WPF.

Is it possible to achieve this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1852

Answers (2)

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 437904

WPF supplies the WindowsFormsHost class that allows you to host WinForms controls inside a WPF window; conversely, WinForms supplies ElementHost that allows you to host WPF controls inside a form.

Unfortunately how well things work out is highly dependent on exactly what you are doing, last time I checked there were more than a few rough edges. For more information, definitely start from this MSDN page.

If you want to have "independent" WPF windows and WinForms forms inside the same application, you will have to make both frameworks "share" some code in your UI thread's message loop. For a primer on how to do that, see here.

Upvotes: 4

Botz3000
Botz3000

Reputation: 39670

There are various classes to help you with this.
For hosting Windows Forms controls in a WPF Window, you can use the WindowsFormsHost class. For hosting WPF Controls in a Windows Forms Window, you can use the ElementHost class.

You can look here for mor information on the subject (windows forms section):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms753178.aspx

Upvotes: 1

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