How well does WPF blend with XNA in real life?

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bitbonk picture bitbonk · Sep 4, 2008 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I understand that there are several ways to blend XNA and WPF within the same application. I find it enticing to use WPF for all GUI and HUD stuff in my XNA games. Does anyone have any practical experience on how well this approach works in real life using .NET 3.5 SP1 ? Any pitfalls (such as the "airspace problem")? Any hint on what appoach works best?

Answer

Kris Erickson picture Kris Erickson · Sep 4, 2008

There is an addition in 3.5 SP1 that allows better interaction between DirectX and WPF (D3DImage), and one way to get to that is through XNA.

Here are some details:

http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Default.aspx?tabid=428&EntryID=259

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