MFC and WinForms Integration

This sample demonstrates how to host a WinForm user control as a dialog or a view in an MFC application.

The sample is comprised of three MFC extension dlls, two WinForm user controls, and one main MFC MDI app:

EXTDLL1 – Uses CWinFormsView to host the WinFormUserControlView1 user control as a CView window inside the MFC MDI app. Also uses command routing to send messages to the WinForms user control.

EXTDLL2 – Shows how to host a WinForm user control as a static control inside an existing CView window.

EXTDLL3 – Encapsulates the different ways a WinForm user control can be hosted in an MFC dialog, including using CDialog and CWinFormsDialog.

WinFormUserControl1 – A simple WinForm user control with some common controls added.

WinFormUserControlView1 – A WinForm user control that implements the Microsoft::VisualC::MFC::IView and Microsoft::VisualC::MFC::ICommandTarget interfaces to participate in MFC command routing and View notifications. This is a basic text editor (using a multiline .NET TextBox control) that uses MFC to save and open files.

MFC04 – This is the main MFC MDI app that loads the MFC extension dlls, adding them as different MFC doc templates.

Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

Visual Studio 2005 July CTP or later.
(Please note that this sample does not work with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2)