Add WPF Window in a Winforms Project in VS 2010

Question

Is it possible to access all the WPF Items from a winforms Project when selecting "add new Item" in VS 2010 ? I only have access to WPF userControl by default.

I would like to add a WPF Window to a winforms project. Not just a user control.

EDIT : Short answer : This does not seem to be possible per se, but it is possible to add WPF resources and the necessary references manually.

Answer 1

Apparently you cannot directly, but what you can do is add a new user control and then modify the code to make it a Window. Simply create a new WPF project, add a window and see what you need to change to turn your user control into a window.

Answer 2

In my opinion the "cleanest" option is using this scheme:

1. Create a WPF project (add any WPF windows you need). Lets call it "WPFProject"
2. In the same solution create a WinForms project (add any Forms you need). Lets call it "MainProject".

3. In MainProject add references to:

   • WPFProject
   • PresentationCore
   • PresentationFramework

Thats all, now you can open your WPF windows from your MainProject (eg. by pressing a button):

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim mywpfform = New WPFProject.MainWindow //MainWindow is the default name of your first WPF window. Obviously you can open any other
        mywpfform .Show()
End Sub