Conclusion

Most developers understand that it’s possible to build really powerful applications with WPF. But with the HWND and Windows Forms interoperability features discussed in this chapter, there’s essentially no limit to the power. That’s because you can tap into decades of effort that has been poured into controls and functionality that are already developed, tested, and deployed. For organizations with huge investments in existing code, this is a critical feature.

The main scenarios discussed in this chapter boiled down to four classes. Their names are a bit confusing and inconsistent, so here’s a summary that you can flip back to if you ever forget which class is which: