Comments on: Airspace Shmairspace http://drwpf.com/blog/2008/08/11/airspace-shmairspace/ Drinking (and serving) the WPF Kool-Aid since 2002 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:54:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dr. WPF http://drwpf.com/blog/2008/08/11/airspace-shmairspace/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Dr. WPF Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:31:43 +0000 http://drwpf.com/blog/?p=38#comment-355 Hey craigomatic, <br><br>Yeah, I think there is definitely opportunity to do something cool with interop between WinForms and WPF, but since WinForms is a GDI+ technology, there will always be limits to the perf gains.<br><br>In fact, an early version of the WindowsFormsHost control used a double-buffered approach to compose the WF rendering with the WPF rendering, but the perf was so bad that it was abandoned. (Well, to be fair, there were other issues besides perf.) Of course, that was an entirely different rendering pipeline (pre-D3DImage) so it would be cool to see what could be achieved now. But it will have to be done by someone who actually has a vested interest in WF... which I'm happy to say is not me! ;-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>-dw Hey craigomatic,

Yeah, I think there is definitely opportunity to do something cool with interop between WinForms and WPF, but since WinForms is a GDI+ technology, there will always be limits to the perf gains.

In fact, an early version of the WindowsFormsHost control used a double-buffered approach to compose the WF rendering with the WPF rendering, but the perf was so bad that it was abandoned. (Well, to be fair, there were other issues besides perf.) Of course, that was an entirely different rendering pipeline (pre-D3DImage) so it would be cool to see what could be achieved now. But it will have to be done by someone who actually has a vested interest in WF… which I’m happy to say is not me! ;-)

Cheers,
-dw

]]> By: craigomatic http://drwpf.com/blog/2008/08/11/airspace-shmairspace/comment-page-1/#comment-354 craigomatic Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:00:04 +0000 http://drwpf.com/blog/?p=38#comment-354 Thanks for that article, was the first thing I could find on 3.5 SP1 immediately post RTM! Was expecting a scottgu post, but no love...<br><br>I wonder what the odds of making a D3DImage-based drop in replacement for the WindowsFormsHost would be? I assume most users previously would've been using something like this to get that nasty windows handle to render to ;) Thanks for that article, was the first thing I could find on 3.5 SP1 immediately post RTM! Was expecting a scottgu post, but no love…

I wonder what the odds of making a D3DImage-based drop in replacement for the WindowsFormsHost would be? I assume most users previously would’ve been using something like this to get that nasty windows handle to render to ;)

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