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title: "Migration and Interoperability"
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# Migration and Interoperability

This page contains links to documents that discuss how to implement interoperation between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications and other types of Microsoft Windows applications.

## In This Section

[Types migrated from WPF to System.Xaml](types-migrated-from-wpf-to-system.md)\
[WPF and Windows Forms Interoperation](wpf-and-windows-forms-interoperation.md)\
[WPF and Win32 Interoperation](wpf-and-win32-interoperation.md)\
[WPF and Direct3D9 Interoperation](wpf-and-direct3d9-interoperation.md)

## Reference

| Term                                                     | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
|----------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost> | An element that you can use to host a Windows Forms control as an element of a WPF page.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Integration.ElementHost>      | A Windows Forms control that you can use to host a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) control.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| <xref:System.Windows.Interop.HwndSource>                 | Hosts a WPF region within a Win32 application.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| <xref:System.Windows.Interop.HwndHost>                   | Base class for <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Integration.WindowsFormsHost>, defines some basic functionality that all HWND-based technologies use when hosted by a WPF application. Subclass this to host a Win32 window within a WPF application. |
| <xref:System.Windows.Interop.BrowserInteropHelper>       | A helper class for reporting conditions of the browser environment for a WPF application that is hosted by a browser.                                                                                                                                                                                                         |

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