Winform controls vs. WPF controls.

[Bill Gower]

Will Net 2.0 Winform controls work in WPF apps or does a control have to be
specifically designed for WPF?

Bill

 

[Radek Cerny]

There is the option using interop, but WPF is a whole new different world,
so the basic answer is no.

 

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Yes, if you contain it within a WindowsFormsHost. See
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.integration.windowsformshost.aspx

/ravi

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Will Net 2.0 Winform controls work in WPF apps or does a control have to
be specifically designed for WPF?

Windows Forms controls are different from WPF controls. Windows Forms
controls are bitmap-based, whereas WPF controls are drawn in a vector-based
way. Thus WPF provides some features like rotation, shearing, etc. of
controls which Windows Forms cotnrols do not support. Nevertheless, there
are ways to mix Windows Forms and WPF, but the result may be disappointing.

 

[Lloyd Dupont]

Good answer ;-)