Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet...
by dpark on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:50PM
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Windows 8 doesn't share a codebase with WP7 (except perhaps at a very low level). The Metro stuff on W8 is built on the new WinRT API/framework. What's hard to port to WP7 may be trivial to port to W8.
Disclaimer: I work for MSFT, but don't have any internal knowledge of W8 or WP7 that isn't public.
Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet...
by brudgers on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:26PM
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Given the ease with which I was able to port one project from codeplex, I am not surprised that Microsoft is lining up the ducks.
The project which I couldn't port (Ncalc) relied on ANTLR and thus a .dll.
The other (Irony) was .NET based and the main difficulty was cleaning up the structure created by VS Professional to Work with Visual Studio for Windows Phone [Express] and converting the console based code to event based...and that was easy even for me.
Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet...
by MatthewPhillips on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:29PM
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Anything that involves saving files will have to be reworked, since you no longer can use System.IO.. I'm trying to port a compression library and have run into this issue.
The one which depended on a .dll couldn't be done because Silverlight doesn't support them.
The other which was self contained took me about three hours because I had no idea what I was doing because I am not a professional programmer by any stretch of the imagination.
I spent another hour creating a user interface so I could test it.