How to open winform from WPF application

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A collection of WinForms are available in Windowsform Project.
I have created WPF application and wants to Open Winform.

What I have tried:

A WindowsForm Project which contains winforms.
A WPF Application for Accessing winforms from above project.

WindowsFormHost provides the facility to access only winforms controls. But I want to access to Winforms.

Posted 29-Oct-20 0:05am

DoingWork

Updated 29-Oct-20 0:54am

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Richard MacCutchan 29-Oct-20 6:38am

What is the problem?

DoingWork 29-Oct-20 6:52am

I can Open Wpf Window by this C# code.
var wpfwindow = new WpfApp.MainWindow();
ElementHost.EnableModelessKeyboardInterop(wpfwindow);
wpfwindow.Show();

My Problem:
Now Vice-Versa, I want to open Winform from WPF Project and problem is that I am failed. ANY HELP PLEASE.

DoingWork 29-Oct-20 7:27am

I have Tried this Code snipped. Nither form display nor any Exception.
WindowsFormsHost wfhost = new WindowsFormsHost();
WinformClassLib.Winform winform = new WinformClassLib.Winform();
winform.TopLevel = false;
wfhost.Child = winform;
wfhost.Child.Show();

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Sandeep Mewara · Answer 1 · 2020-10-29T00:55:00

Solution 1

You would need to use WindowsFormsHost control for it.

Following Microsoft document will help you guide:
Host a Windows Forms control in WPF | Microsoft Docs[^]
Walkthrough: Hosting a WPF Composite Control in Windows Forms[^]

Posted 29-Oct-20 0:55am

Sandeep Mewara

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DoingWork 29-Oct-20 7:27am

I have Tried this Code snipped. Nither form display nor any Exception.
WindowsFormsHost wfhost = new WindowsFormsHost();
WinformClassLib.Winform winform = new WinformClassLib.Winform();
winform.TopLevel = false;
wfhost.Child = winform;
wfhost.Child.Show();

Sandeep Mewara 29-Oct-20 10:08am

Did you look at: https://github.com/Microsoft/WPF-Samples/tree/master/Migration%20and%20Interoperability/HostingWfInWPF