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Leveraging your existing code base for Windows 8

Leveraging your existing code base for Windows 8. Angelo Chan Kamran Bilgrami. Agenda. Modern app Modern app vs. desktop app Building blocks - WinRT Components Demo - WinRT metadata files Demo - Projections Rules for creating WinRT Components Q&A. What are modern apps?.

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Leveraging your existing code base for Windows 8

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  1. Leveraging your existing code base for Windows 8 Angelo Chan Kamran Bilgrami

  2. Agenda • Modern app • Modern app vs. desktop app • Building blocks - WinRT Components • Demo - WinRT metadata files • Demo - Projections • Rules for creating WinRT Components • Q&A

  3. What are modern apps? Previously known as “Metro style apps” Focus • Content consumption • Modern Design Principles • Content before Chrome • Contracts Runtime • The new Windows Runtime (WinRT) • Program Life Cycle Management (PLM)

  4. Legacy (Desktop) App

  5. Modern App

  6. Why convert your app to a modern app? • To reach more consumer devices (tablet, Windows Phone 8) • To publish to Windows Marketplace to reach a wide audience • To emphasize content in your app

  7. Modern Apps - PLM

  8. Modern apps - PLM

  9. Visual Studio Templates

  10. Windows Runtime Components

  11. Windows Runtime - Types • Primitives • Structs • Arrays • Classes • Interfaces • Enum • String

  12. WinRT Components - Primitives

  13. WinRT Components - Collections

  14. Winmd Files

  15. Windows 8 Architecture

  16. Windows Runtime Component - Projections

  17. Projections

  18. Authoring WinRT Components • Playing by the rules • Rules at various levels • Assembly, Classes, Interfaces, struct, Async • Compiler is your best friend • Detailed Rulesbit.ly/OWDe2A

  19. Contact: kamran@windowsdebugging.com angelo@windowsdebugging.com

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