Possible to attach an HWND to a Form??

[WayneD]

Hi All,
I'm writing a class that implements a COM interface. Unfortunately, one of
the methods passes in an HWND and I'm supposed to create a control with that
HWND as the parent. The idea is to plop my control onto the client's dialog.
Is this possible in C#??? There are 2 issues I'm concerned about:

1. What type of thingy should I create as the child control. I'm trying a
UserControl.
2. Is there some way to "attach" the HWND to a Form that I can then use to
set the Parent property of my newly created control?

I tried using Control.FromHandle, but that didn't work...

Thanks for any help!
Wayne

[Mattias Sjögren]

1. What type of thingy should I create as the child control. I'm trying a
UserControl.
Anything derived from Control should work.

2. Is there some way to "attach" the HWND to a Form that I can then use to
set the Parent property of my newly created control?

No, I think you'll have to call the SetParent Win32 API.

Mattias

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[Eric Newton]

Interesting... I have a similar need to "parent" a dialog box into another
window.
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1. What type of thingy should I create as the child control. I'm trying a
UserControl.

Anything derived from Control should work.

2. Is there some way to "attach" the HWND to a Form that I can then use toset the Parent property of my newly created control?

No, I think you'll have to call the SetParent Win32 API.

Mattias

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