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I use WindowsFormsHost to host a Windows.Forms.PictureBox control in a WPF application

I want to cover it with some other WPF controls( e.g. Image), but no control in WPF can appears in front of the WindowsFormsHost control.

Why? How?

Thank you!

Huson

You can't. This got me as well.

See http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms744952.aspx

Alan Painter

Plain and simple the WPF compositing engine and the Winforms (i.e. User32/GDI+) engine do things quite differently. Because of those differences (and also the fact that WPF has no control over whether a Winforms control is using DirectX or not), WPF controls and WinFormsHost can't exist in the same space....well they can but guess who's getting their Z-index sent to the back?

What's in your toolbelt? http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=wpftoolbelt

ivolved_Mike_Brown

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