Constant framerate in WPF for game

Question

Im creating a simple vehicle and projectile simulation game in WPF using C#. I need to have a constant frame rate (i.e. i need to know how much to move an object with a certain

Answer 1

You can use WPF to draw the surrounding UI of your game and then use the DirectComposition API to have the Composition Engine (DWM) compose your swapchain directly on top of WPF's window.

I have uploaded a sample demonstrating this on github.

The UI would not have a constant frame rate, but your swapchain would. Hittesting would just fall through to the WPF window.