Using AdControl to display ads in a WPF application packaged for UWP

Question

I (appear to) have successfully created a UWP package for my WPF application using the following guide:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/desktop-to-uwp-packaging-dot-net

Now I would like to take advantage of the AdControl class to display banner ads in my project, as detailed here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/monetize/adcontrol-in-xaml-and--net

Is this possible? I don't see the "Universal Windows" section under References for my WPF project, which I can guess is because it’s not an original Universal Windows project. I do see it under References for the UWP package wrapper project I created using the guide above, but that doesn't help me show ads in the WPF project.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

You can add Universal Windows reference and use the API in your project as described here but you cannot use AdControl since XAML/UI in WPF is not the same as XAML in UWP and the AdControl is a UWP XAML control:

As mentioned above, there are exceptions to the rule that Windows 10 APIs are accessible from PC software. The first big exception concerns XAML UI APIs. The XAML framework in UWP is different from the one in WPF and you really don’t want to be mixing them up, anyways.