To get a WPF Dialog to position at the centre of a Windows Forms parent form I passed the parent form to the dialog since Application.Current didn't return the Windows Form parent (I assume it only works if the parent app is WPF).
I'd like to add to the Fredrik Hedblad response that if the MainWindows has been resized or maximized, the result would be wrong, because mainWindow.Width and mainWindow.Height reflect the value that are set on the XAML.
If you want the actual values, you can use mainWindow.ActualWidth and mainWindow.ActualHeight:
I am using "screen.WorkingArea" because the task bar makes the mainWindow smaller.
If you want to place the window in the middle of the screen, you can use "screen.Bounds" instead.
I think everyone's answers to this question are parts to what the answer should be. I will simply put them together which I believe is the easiest and elegant approach to this problem.
First setup where you want the window to be located. Here it's the owner.
<Window WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner">
Before opening the window we need to give it the owner and from another post we can access the MainWindow using the static getter for the current application's MainWindow.
Window window = new Window();
window.Owner = Application.Current.MainWindow;
window.Show();
For the sake of documentation, I'll add here an example of how I achieved something similar. What I needed was a popup that covered the entire parent Window content area (excluding the title bar), but simply centering the dialog and stretching its content didn't work because the dialog was always offset a little bit from the bottom.
Note about user experience: It's not nice not being able to drag/close the parent window when the borderless dialog is showing, so I would reconsider using it. I also decided not to do this after posting this answer, but will leave it up for others to look at.
After some googling and testing, I finally managed to do it like this:
The DialogWindow is a Window and its owner is set to the main application Window. The WindowStartupLocation must be set to Manual for manual positioning to work.
Result:
I don't know if there's an easier way to do this, but nothing else seemed to work for me.