WinForms

WPF and Visual Studio Addins

If at all possible nowadays, I write all my Windows UI code in WPF, it’s just quicker and easier than WinForms. Recently however, I came across a situation that you should just avoid. If you’re developing addins for multiple versions of Visual Studio - don’t use WPF for the Tools > Options windows. It’s just noit going to place nice out of the box. This is because there’s a lot of property page Win32 stuff going on in the host window that makes it hard to route messages properly - keyboard entry won’t work correctly, tab order will be messed up and more, it’s just not worth the pain.
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