我应该选择哪种C＃项目类型？ 需要UWP设计功能，但需要WPF功能

Question

I want to take advantage of the nice acrylic brush that is offered in UWP, but I also need to be able to access other process information and load DLLs for SDKs (eg Aura (needs dll) and Philips Hue (works without referencing dll) and detect system hibernation/wake (UWP cant't distinguish between going to the lock screen or going to hibernation or waking/logging in)).

I tried to make this in UWP, but the sandbox is making it impossible. I also tried in WPF, but I couldn't get as good and nice performing acrylic effect as UWP offered, only the aero blur which is not as strongly blurred. I lastly tried to create a WPF project that uses the Microsoft.Toolkit.Wpf.UI.Controls Nuget package, however it doesn't seem to come with the acrylic brush for WPF.

What are my alternatives in C#?

Is it possible to run a uwp app as the UI and have a WPF app as a constant background task without delay, messaging back and forth?

Answer 1

Is it possible to run a uwp app as the UI and have a WPF app as a constant background task without delay, messaging back and forth?

Yes, sort of. You can add a desktop extension component to your UWP app.

@Stefan Wick has written a number of blog posts on the subject and also provided a code sample on GitHub that shows how to extend a UWP app with a "classic" .NET console desktop application that runs as a full trust process.

Please refer to his blog for more information.

Answer 2

The question is asked in a kind of odd shape... however in WPF you can achive blur effect linke this:

    <Grid.Effect>
        <BlurEffect Radius="4" KernelType="Gaussian"/>
    </Grid.Effect>

The radius changes the "blurynes"

And no you cannot run seperate applications without any draw backs...

you should also check out: Apply blur to everything behind a chosen container

Answer 3

I think you are looking for Application Packaging Project in Visual Studio . You can find the examples on MS blog: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2017/12/04/extend-desktop-application-windows-10-features-using-new-visual-studio-application-packaging-project/#KeIh8l8WoJ5OLGkE.97