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chirag1992m
chirag1992m

Reputation: 661

Integrating WPF application with WinForm application

I have an winForms application fully written in VB.NET. I have to start importing this application into WPF written C#. For the starting, I want to do this only for one module of the application. Is there any way I can pass VB.NET objects to a C# code, call a WPF application from a WinForms application and vice-versa ?

How should I approach this problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 655

Answers (2)

makc
makc

Reputation: 2579

There is no easy way to migrate winform applications to Wpf.

You should carefully consider the reasons why would you like to do it and the effort it will take vs the profit.

that being said you can start by hosting your winform by a wpf application using WindowsFormHost then you can start by rewriting your controls one at a time and using ElementHost to host them in the winform.

Since you would like your application to be robust and use MVVM I personally think that it will take too much effort to migrate and it will be more reasonable to rewrite the application using already existing modules(logic not ui modules)

Regarding using Vb.net object in c# it can be done easily because they are both managed languages and are being compiled to CIL:

During compilation of CLI programming languages, the source code is translated into CIL code rather than platform or processor-specific object code. CIL is a CPU- and platform-independent instruction set that can be executed in any environment supporting the Common Language Infrastructure, such as the .NET runtime on Windows

Upvotes: 5

praks
praks

Reputation: 128

Yes u can call wpf application in windows and vice-versa.For that u have to configure in .config file

In Through ElementHost u can access the controls

Upvotes: 0

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