1. Making Winforms And WPF Work Together
Niraj Bhatt
Technical Architect | Microsoft MVP |

2. CrossBow Codename for WPF / Winforms interop
Integrated with VS.NET 2008
Available through WindowsFormsIntegration.dll
No, this is not the official logo 

3. CrossBow Goals
Provide Run / Design time solution to enable co-existence of WinForms / WPF in context of a single hybrid application
Preserve WinForms investments
Adoption of WPF at customer pace
No Application Rewrite

4. CrossBow Non-Goals Markup solution for creating Winforms application
Code Migration Wizard
Hard to get right
Conscious design for WPF
Not just swap control by control

5. Need For Interop WPF doesn’t use HWND Rendering
Winforms need a Control derived class

6. Solution via Hosts WPF Application WF Application Windows Forms
Controls
WPF Elements
WindowsFormsHost
ElementHost
Adapter
Adapter

7. CrossBow Architecture
Crossbow RT
Unit Conversions
Focus Management
Keyboard Mgmt
Property Mapping
Windows Forms
“Cider”
WindowsFormsHost
Crossbow Ext
Crossbow Ext
ElementHost
WF Designer
Cider Designer

8. DEMO
Using ElementHost
VS.NET 2008 with SP1

9. Using WindowsFormsHost
DEMO
Using WindowsFormsHost
VS.NET 2008 with SP1

10. References MSDN Blogs Books Migration & Interoperability
Mike Henderlight
Daniel Moth
Josh Smith
Books
Programming WPF – Chris Sells & Ian Griffiths

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