Using a Windows Form User Control in MFC

Using the MFC Windows Forms support classes, you can host Windows Forms controls within your MFC applications as an ActiveX control within MFC dialog boxes or views. In addition, Windows Forms forms can be hosted as MFC dialog boxes.

The following sections describe how to:

  • Host a Windows Forms control in an MFC dialog box.

  • Host a Windows Forms user control as an MFC view.

  • Host a Windows Forms form as an MFC dialog box.

Note

MFC Windows Forms integration works only in projects that link dynamically with MFC (projects in which _AFXDLL is defined).

Note

When you build your application using a private (modified) copy of the MFC Windows Forms interfaces DLL (mfcmifc80.dll), it will fail to install in the GAC unless you replace the Microsoft key with your own vendor key. For more information on assembly signing, see Programming with Assemblies and Strong Name Assemblies (Assembly Signing) (C++/CLI).

If your MFC application uses Windows Forms, you need to redistribute mfcmifc80.dll with your application. For more information, see Redistributing the MFC Library.

In This Section

Hosting a Windows Form User Control in an MFC Dialog Box

Hosting a Windows Forms User Control as an MFC View

Hosting a Windows Form User Control as an MFC Dialog Box

Reference

CWinFormsControl Class

CWinFormsDialog Class

CWinFormsView Class

ICommandSource Interface

ICommandTarget Interface

ICommandUI Interface

IView Interface

CommandHandler

DDX_ManagedControl

UICheckState

Windows Forms

Windows Forms Controls

See also

User Interface Elements
Form Views