Use WPF from Windows Forms projects in Visual Studio 2008

The Discussion

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  It was only because I am particularly interested in this area that i put up with the appalling reliability of the streaming server on fullscreen mode, it would not last more than 2 minutes without losing the connection!

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  Oh c**p... I've just noticed the zip file option...

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  Hi jh71283, I apologise for your bad experience with the streaming servers and I am glad you found the ZIP option... Thanks for persisting.
  

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  Well done, nicely paced.  Question: why did you disable the Visual Studio Hosting Process?

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  Thanks Steve. The reason was that the pre-release version of VS2008 that I was using had a showstopper bug when I mixed wpf interop with the hosting process. It should be fixed now of course.

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  Cool screencast, thx!
  

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  kriz, thanks for watching.

   

  Cheers

  Daniel

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  First THIS WAS great and addressed almost everything I needed.

   

  I have an issue and dont know how to address it and it was not addressed in the video.

  I hope you or someone can help.

  I placed a UserControl onto my WinForm some of the Xaml is below. If you notice in my user control

  there is a PlusButton_Click how do I attach that to the main form?

  Or how to alter the Winform to be able to handle a click event on the controls? How do I forward this? Its a custom control.

   

  <UserControl1>

  ........

    <Grid>
      <Slider Name="slider1" Width="21" Orientation="Vertical" TickFrequency="1" Maximum="5" TickPlacement="None" IsSnapToTickEnabled="True" Value="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="1,23,0,17" />
      <Button x:Name="PlusButton" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="25"

        Content="+" Height="37" Style="{StaticResource NewUpButton}" Background="#FF1C96FF"

         FontWeight="Black" FontFamily="Arial" FontSize="16"

        Click="PlusButton_Click" />
    </Grid>
  </UserControl1>

  HELP?!

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  Hi ChicagoBob

   

  Glad the video was useful. May I suggest that you use the free online forums for WPF questions please:

  http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/threads

   

  Good luck!

   

  Cheers

  Daniel

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  Hey ChicoBob

   

  I don't know if you got it figured out yet, but here's my suggestion:

   

  In the XAML code behind:

   

   

   Public Event RemindClick As EventHandler Public Event DismissClick As EventHandler Private Sub dismiss_button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles dismiss_button.Click RaiseEvent DismissClick(Me, e) End Sub Private Sub remind_button_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles remind_button.Click RaiseEvent RemindClick(Me, e) End Sub 

   

  Here you're creating 2 event handlers and then raising them on the click event.

   

  In the code behind on the Windows Form:

   

   Dim WithEvents WpfControl As WpfControlLibrary.WpfControl= Nothing ' In the form OnLoad event WpfControl = New WpfControlLibrary.WpfControl ElementHost1.Child = WpfControl Private Sub OkClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles WpfControl.RemindClick ' Some code here End Sub Private Sub CancelClick() Handles WpfControl.DismissClick ' Some code here End Sub 

   

  Hope that helps...