Calling a WPF form from Winforms application

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I have 2 projects - 1 is a Winforms application and the second is a WPF form (both C# .NET4). I would like to call the WPF form from my winforms application by creating an object of the WPF application class(passing a few values to the constructor as well) and using the .show() method.

I need an example of how to do this as I am new to MVVM pattern and I am not sure how to do this.

name of view = MainWindow.xaml
name of view model viewModel = MyViewModel.cs (the data context of my view is set to my view model)
the model is common to both the winforms and WPF application.
I am not sure what object to create to display the WPF form.

If you can give me any link to a sample application it will be a big plus point.

Posted 25-Mar-13 2:16am

rohith naik

Updated 25-Mar-13 2:17am

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YAIR-I · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-25T04:16:00

I recently come across sample of creating systry application as systry application and not winform application that minimize to the try. long story short it include the using of winform and wpf in the same program.
this is the article:
https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/creating-tray-applications-in-.net-a-practical-guide/[^]
and the exact section:
https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/creating-tray-applications-in-.net-a-practical-guide/#fifteenth[^]

He wrote there that he took this from here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth/archive/2008/07/29/open-a-wpf-window-from-winforms.aspx[^]

also from there you can go to mixing wpf and winform
https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/mixing-wpf-and-winforms/[^]

I hope this will help you.