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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 2. Using WPF Standard Controls FREE CHAPTER 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 WPF controls in WinForm applications

As WPF provides a rich user interface to applications, you may want to apply the same to your existing applications. But when you have a large Windows Form application project, where you already made a large investment, you won't like to reinvest on the same to scrap it and rewrite the entire project in WPF.

In such cases, WPF interoperation with WinForms is ideal. Using this, you can embed a WPF control inside a form and leverage the additional features of WPF, wherever possible.

In the previous recipe, we learned how to host WinForm controls into a WPF application. But in this recipe, we will learn the reverse, that is, how to host a WPF composite control in a Windows Forms application. We will learn this by following some simple walkthrough steps. You can extend this procedure later to host more complex applications and controls.

This walkthrough will basically be divided into two logical parts. In the first part, we will build a WPF...

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