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Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet... by dpark on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:50PM (#3140592)
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.

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Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet... by brudgers on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:26PM (#3141788)
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.

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Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet... by MatthewPhillips on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:29PM (#3141795)
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.
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Re:Is it too late to split Windows 8 into desktop and tablet... by dpark on Saturday October 22, 2011 @12:47AM (#3142836)
Good to know. A quick search online indicates that System.IO isn't gone, but does have a reduced set of classes. That could definitely affect some apps.
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