Question

I have a windows form which calls other windows form that work within my application. What I want to accomplish is to get away from this whole “windows form” thing and use WPF View (usercontrol) instead. Is there a way I can call a view to show it from my form?

ElementHost host = new ElementHost();
            Cars.WPF.Views.DescriptionView descView = new Cars.WPF.Views.DescriptionView();
            host.Controls.Add(descView);
            host.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;

I get error: –> Argument 1: cannot convert from ‘Car.WPF.Views.DescriptionView’ to ‘System.Windows.Forms.Control’

Answer 1

Add a panel in your winform (lets say panel1)
Define ElementHost at class level, Also define WPF Control at class level

ElementHost host;
Cars.WPF.Views.DescriptionView descView;

In form load event do:

host= new ElementHost();
panel1.Controls.Add(ctrlHost); //Add Element host to panel1
descView = new Cars.WPF.Views.DescriptionView();
descView.InitializeComponent();
host.Child = descView; //Instead of adding WPF control to Winform do this

Also in your project references add:

PresentationCore
PresentationFramework
WindowsBase