Convert Silverlight App to WPF

Question

I need to convert a Silverlight App to WPF (to finally run it on Microsoft Surface 1.0).

I didn't write the original solution and it is quite big. I've never worked with Silverlight and I'm just a little bit familiar with WPF.

Can you offer some advice on completing this project?

Here's my current plan (high level view):

• Recreate all Silverlight projects in WPF (User Control in Silverlight = WPF User Control Library ?)
• References are not the same so I'll need to make some changes ... I think :)
• Hope all controls are compatible with WPF ...

Have I missed something big? Is something wrong? Incomplete?

I'm open to all your suggestions and advice!

Any development tips ?

Answer 1

I recently converted a Silverlight app to WPF. You can find my notes on how I did it here:

http://robertsmyth.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/migrating-from-silverlight-to-wpf.html

Hope it helps you.

Answer 2

"User Control in Silverlight = WPF User Control Library ?" Not exactly. which version of silverlight do you use? Most difficult issue I have faced while porting WPF to Silverlight was with converters. Silverlight 4.0 or lower doesn't support Ancestor RelativeSource Binding. But supported in Silverlight 5!

Hope this link will help you. WPF and Silverlight 2 Compatibility