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In an ideal world, once developers master a new technology such as WPF they’d leave the previous framework behind. Everything would be written using the latest, most capable toolkit, and no one would ever worry about legacy code. Of course, this ideal world is nothing like the real world, and there are two reasons why most WPF developers will need to interact with the Windows Forms platform at some point: to leverage existing code investments and to compensate for missing features in WPF.
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© 2008 Matthew MacDonald
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(2008). Interacting with Windows Forms. In: Pro WPF with VB 2008. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0590-6_25
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