Is it OK to enable both Winforms and WPF for a .NET 6.0 application?-CodePudding

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The reason I'm asking is because I want to use certain classes from Winforms in a WPF application.

CodePudding user response：

Yes, it's OK and there are valid scenarios which you may want to add both frameworks. It's already mentioned in the documentations, you can add both, if necessary:

Add a UI framework property (or both, if necessary):

Set UseWPF to true to import and use WPF.

Set UseWindowsForms to true to import and use WinForms.

And also the example shows the same:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>WinExe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0-windows</TargetFramework>

    <UseWPF>true</UseWPF>
    <!-- and/or -->
    <UseWindowsForms>true</UseWindowsForms>
  </PropertyGroup>

</Project>

CodePudding user response：

Yes, this works just fine. You can have an application use both WinForms and WPF, even intermixed. There are even controls to host a WPF control inside a Winforms window and WinForms controls inside a WPF window (see e.g. here).

There are a some limits when doing this extensively (WPF hosts WinForms control, hosts WPF control hosts... etc may not work) but I've been working on a GUI that has everything intermixed (for legacy reasons) and it is generally working great.