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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Calling COM Objects from WPF

Now that you have completed all the required steps to wrap a COM component into a Windows Forms user control, you need a way to use such a control in WPF. As you learned in Chapter 29, “WPF Common Controls,” you use a WindowsFormsHost control to embed Windows Forms contents inside a WPF window or user control. So, double-click the MainWindow.xaml file in Solution Explorer. Then, when the main window of the application is available in the designer, drag the WindowsFormsHost control from the toolbox onto the window. Remove all auto-generated property values and assign a name, so that the WindowsFormsHost definition looks like this:

<WindowsFormsHost Name="FormsHost1" />

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