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ElementHost control (Wpf Interoperability) do not display in Toolbox WinForms designer And Can not add Wpf UserControl in winform designer
See original GitHub issueEnvironment
VisualStudio 17.6.4
.NET version
- Windows Form App template
- .NET core 7.0
Did this work in a previous version of Visual Studio and/or previous .NET release?
It works in .NET framework 4.8
Issue description
- Can not display ElementHost (Wpf Interoperability)
- Can not add Wpf UserControl in the Winform in design mode
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new
Windows Form Appproject with a target framework 7.0. - Open Form1.cs in design mode
- Open Toolbox then search
ElementHost(not found this control)
Image WinFormApp .net core 7.0
But with .net framework 4.8 has it and works fine
Diagnostics
No response
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 2 months ago
- Reactions:2
- Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)
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@MauNguyenVan the designer repo is currently closed source.
There are known issues in Winforms designer repo: https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/919, https://github.com/microsoft/winforms-designer/issues/2626.