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At present we host a number of WPF controls in a WinForms application. The application is started using the System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(...) method and WPF controls hosted using the ElementHost.
In a normal WPF application I'd define a System.Windows.Application object (App.xaml) and call run on it. Normally any application level WPF resources would go in there. We don't have this.
How can I specify application level resources for the WPF controls but still run as a WinForms app?
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Yes you can, both Windows Forms within a WPF application, and WPF controls within Windows Forms.
To add a Resource Dictionary into your WPF application, right click the WPF project > add a Resource Dictionary. Now apply the resource "myAnotherBackgroundColor" to button background and observe the changes.
WPF allows developers to create event-driven rich client applications for usage on the Windows operating system. WPF can be used to develop and design both Windows applications and web applications while WinForms can only be used to develop and design Windows applications.
In a hosted environment you do not have easy access to the Application, Dr WPF has a couple of methods for working in a hosted scenario at http://drwpf.com/blog/2007/10/05/managing-application-resources-when-wpf-is-hosted/.
I am personally using his SharedResources class in a work project, VB6 Form hosting Winforms UserControl hosting ElementHost hosting WPF UserControl with a Application wide theme, for the WPF controls.
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