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WPF, Windows Forms and ATL Part 3 by David Sackstein

Continued from Part 2 . So now for the second scenario. Hosting WPF controls in legacy containers. Well let’s start with hosting a WPF control in a Windows Form. Then we’ll have a bash at hosting a WPF control in an unmanaged application (hee, hee). Here is the source code for the three projects described in this post. Hosting WPF Controls in a Windows Form Hosting WPF Controls in a Windows Forms application is quite straightforward. The key is the ElementHost control in the Systems.Windows.Forms...

WPF, Windows Forms and ATL Part 2 by David Sackstein

Continuing from Part 1 . We are still discussing the first scenario for WPF Interop, namely using COM and Windows Forms User Controls in a WPF application. Here I will be giving some examples. In the next post I will discuss the second scenario – hosting a WPF control in a Windows Form application. You can download all the source code for Part 1 and Part 2 of this article here . Please note: All projects were prepared with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. WPF Application using a Simple COM Object (ATL...

WPF, Windows Forms and ATL Part 1 by David Sackstein

OK. I finally managed to create the sample ATL called Polygon from the ATL Tutorial on MSDN using the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. The problems I mention in the previous post remain; I simply hand-coded the text that the ATL wizard failed to create (well, maybe simply is not appropriate here). Anyway, back to interop. We have two scenarios to examine: WPF using COM objects and Windows Forms User Controls Windows Forms using WPF controls Let’s start with the first. In the rest of this post I will describe...

ATL and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 by David Sackstein

I am working on a post or two on the subject of WPF Interop with ATL and Windows Forms. I would like to demonstrate: ATL Simple Control in a WPF Window ATL ActiveX in a WPF Window Windows Form user control in a WPF Window WPF control in a Windows Form However, I encountered an unexpected setback: Its very difficult to create ATL projects with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1! The ATL Wizard doesnt add implementations in the control to methods you add to the interface. When implementing connection points...