What are some techniques for migrating a large MFC application to WPF/.NET?

Question

I am currently working on a very large legacy MFC MDI application. It has a large number of UI elements - dockable toolbars, custom tree controls, context menus, etc. It i

Answer 1

I had to do the same thing in a project using WinForms before. We needed to migrate our MFC project to .NET 1.1 and we decided to take all the core functionality of the MFC application and write managed wrappers around all of them. Then we wrote a WinForms front end and plugged in the legacy c++ code bit by bit. I think we made the right choice in the long run. I can't imagine how we would have done it if we had tried to preserve the MFC front end at the same time.