Visual studio windows form control issue

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Hey I have a favor can somebody tell me what windows form control that I can add to my windows form that allows me to run the game executable inside of the parent form instead of calling the program from the foreign EXE outside of the windows form like you would normally..

Its like a picture box control where the picture can be inside of the parent windows form But for my sake I want this but Have a pc game run inside of the parent windows form does anybody know a visual studio control that I can download to add to the toolbox thanks...

Or some c++ code that can do this for me but a windows form control would be nicer... A download link Please thanks.

What I have tried:

I have researched for some kind of visual studio control but no luck....

Posted 4-Mar-18 19:04pm

John Nay

Updated 4-Mar-18 20:58pm

KarstenK

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CPallini · Answer 1 · 2018-03-04T20:46:00

Solution 1

As far as I know, you can't do that, at least without some support coming from the PC game itself (I am not aware of games supporting that).

Posted 4-Mar-18 20:46pm

CPallini

KarstenK · Answer 2 · 2018-03-04T20:58:00

Solution 2

No this isnt possible, because an external exe runs in another process and has its own windows.

The only possibility is to get the source code of that exe and embed it into you exe or start it as COM-component.

You will have "no luck" in trying impossible thinks. ;-)

Posted 4-Mar-18 20:58pm

KarstenK