Adding the component to a Visual Studio.NET 2008 WPF project
As you are probably aware XAML & C# codebehind for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) does not have a container form like Winforms applications, so the controls toolbox is not available. This means you cannot just drag the control onto a form and have Visual Studio automatically instantiate it.
The XAML code is what is used to generate the "form" and it is here that you need to instantiate our control:
Create a "WPF Application" project, named by default "WpfApplication1"
This will create two files a/ Window1.xaml & Window1.xaml.cs
On the Solution Explorer sidebar, right-click the "References" section, select the "Add reference" item from the context menu and, from the "Add Reference" window, manually add the following references to the project:
AudioDjStudio
System.Windows.Forms
WindowsFormsIntegration
Modify the original XAML file with the following code:
<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
xmlns:as="clr-namespace:AudioDjStudio;assembly=AudioDjStudio"
xmlns:wf="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms;assembly=System.Windows.Forms"
xmlns:wfi="clr-namespace:System.Windows.Forms.Integration;assembly=WindowsFormsIntegration"
Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300"
>
<Grid>
<wfi:WindowsFormsHost Margin="1,0,-1,0">
<as:AudioDjStudio x:Name="audioDjStudio1"/>
</wfi:WindowsFormsHost>
</Grid>
</Window>
This will now initialize the control when the application loads.
The Window1.xaml.cs file is the codebehind file where you can then just use the control as usual, for example for initializing it and displaying its about box:
namespace WpfApplication1
{
/// <summary>
/// Interaction logic for Window1.xaml
/// </summary>
public partial class Window1 : Window
{
public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
audioDjStudio1.InitSoundSystem(2, 0, 0, 0, 0);
audioDjStudio1.AboutBox();
}
}
}
