I have a problem with a WPF control that I'm trying to host in an ElementHost in a WinForms app. The control is a lookless custom control that I originally developed in a separate test project, which was a WPF app. In there it obviously works fine, but in my WinForms app all I get is a blank grey box where the ElementHost is displayed.
Here's my C# code for creating, populating, and adding the ElementHost to the parent Control:
// This is my WPF control
m_TabHostPanel = new TabHostPanel();
m_ElementHost = new ElementHost
{
Child = m_TabHostPanel,
Dock = DockStyle.Top,
Height = 34
};
this.Controls.Add( m_ElementHost );
The parent control contains other WinForms controls that are added and removed at runtime, as needed. These are all hosted singly with their Dock set to DockStyle.Fill. Thus, every time I add one I send the ElementHost to the back of the Z-order to make sure it renders correctly:
m_ElementHost.SendToBack();
Thus, I know I'm not running into an airspace problem, or anything like that.
The one thing I did wonder about is this: in the original project the styles for all my lookless controls were merged into the resource dictionary for the application in App.xaml, like this:
<Application x:Class="WpfTestApp.App"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
StartupUri="MainWindow.xaml">
<Application.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Application/UserInterface/DataTemplates/TabModelDataTemplate.xaml"/>
<ResourceDictionary Source="Application/UserInterface/Styles/HoverablePressableButtonStyle.xaml