Walkthrough: Hosting a Windows Forms Control in WPF
WPF provides many controls with a rich feature set. However, you may sometimes want to use Windows Forms controls on your WPF pages. For example, you may have a substantial investment in existing Windows Forms controls, or you may have a Windows Forms control that provides unique functionality.
This walkthrough shows you how to host a Windows Forms System.Windows.Forms.MaskedTextBox control on a WPF page by using code.
For a complete code listing of the tasks shown in this walkthrough, see Hosting a Windows Forms Control in WPF Sample.
To host the MaskedTextBox control
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Create a WPF Application project named HostingWfInWpf.
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Add references to the following assemblies.
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WindowsFormsIntegration
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System.Windows.Forms
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Open MainWindow.xaml in the WPF Designer.
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Name the Grid element grid1.
<Grid Name="grid1"> </Grid>
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In Design view or XAML view, select the Window element.
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In the Properties window, click the Events tab.
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Double-click the Loaded event.
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Insert the following code to handle the Loaded event.
private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Create the interop host control. System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost host = new System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost(); // Create the MaskedTextBox control. MaskedTextBox mtbDate = new MaskedTextBox("00/00/0000"); // Assign the MaskedTextBox control as the host control's child. host.Child = mtbDate; // Add the interop host control to the Grid // control's collection of child controls. this.grid1.Children.Add(host); }
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At the top of the file, add the following Imports or using statement.
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Press F5 to build and run the application.
