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HwndHost Class

Hosts a Win32 window as an element within Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) content.

Namespace: System.Windows.Interop
Assembly: PresentationFramework (in presentationframework.dll)

'Declaration
Public MustInherit Class HwndHost
	Inherits FrameworkElement
	Implements IDisposable, IWin32Window, IKeyboardInputSink
'Usage
Dim instance As HwndHost

public abstract class HwndHost extends FrameworkElement implements IDisposable, IWin32Window, 
	IKeyboardInputSink
public abstract class HwndHost extends FrameworkElement implements IDisposable, IWin32Window, 
	IKeyboardInputSink
This class is abstract; see Inheritance Hierarchy for derived non-abstract classes usable in XAML.

To host a Win32 window, create a class that derives from HwndHost. Override the BuildWindowCore method and create your Win32 window as a child of the parent window that is passed into the method.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0

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