Windows® Presentation Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 15. Interoperability with Win32, Windows Forms, and ActiveX

In This Chapter

• Embedding Win32 Controls in WPF Applications
• Embedding WPF Controls in Win32 Applications
• Embedding Windows Forms Controls in WPF Applications
• Embedding WPF Controls in Windows Forms Applications
• Embedding ActiveX Controls in WPF Applications

Windows Presentation Foundation, especially in its first release, lacks some features that previous technologies already have. When creating a WPF-based user interface, you might want to exploit such features. For example, WPF currently doesn’t include some of the standard controls that Windows Forms already has: DateTimePicker, MonthCalendar, NumericUpDown, MaskedTextBox, NotifyIcon, DataGridView, and more. Windows Forms ...