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Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook 100 recipes to build rich desktop client applications on Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788399807
Length 524 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kunal Chowdhury Kunal Chowdhury
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Preface 1. WPF Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Using WPF Standard Controls 3. Layouts and Panels 4. Working with Data Bindings 5. Using Custom Controls and User Controls 6. Using Styles, Templates, and Triggers 7. Using Resources and MVVM Patterns 8. Working with Animations 9. Using WCF Services 10. Debugging and Threading 11. Interoperability with Win32 and WinForm 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hosting WinForm controls in WPF applications

Though Windows Platform Foundation (WPF) provides a huge set of controls with a rich set of features, there can still be chances of various cases when you have some Windows Form (WinForm) controls that are not available in WPF. There could be some cases too, when you are porting your WinForm application to WPF, where you have no other choice than reusing existing controls and/or forms, as the reimplementation will burn huge efforts. So, what needs to be done in such cases?

WPF provides a way to reuse existing controls from Windows Forms and host them inside it (whether in a control, a window, or a page). This is called interoperation between the two platforms as they present two different architectures for creating application interfaces.

The System.Windows.Forms.Integration namespace provides you with the classes that enable the common interoperation scenarios, whereas the WindowsFormsHost class provides you with the capability to implement...

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