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There are clearly lot of limitations to what will run on the new ARM based Windows 8 systems.
However given the .net is meant to be CPU independent, I was hoping that most .net based desktop apps will work on an ARM powered Windows 8 system, with little or no work form the developer.
Was my hope misplaced?
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Yes you can, both Windows Forms within a WPF application, and WPF controls within Windows Forms.
WPF is still one of the most used app frameworks in use on Windows (right behind WinForms).
Universal Windows Platform. Both Windows Forms and WPF are old, and Microsoft is pointing developers towards its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) instead. UWP is an evolution of the new application platform introduced in Windows 8 in 2012.
"We continue to support and innovate in Windows Forms runtime," said Microsoft's Igor Velikorossov last month in announcing what's new for WinForms in . NET 6. He's a software engineer on the dev team for the 19-year-old product, a free and open-source graphical (GUI) class library included as a part of .
In the //build/ keynote, Steven Sinofsky said that Metro style apps will work. C# and JavaScript will run without any changes. C++ will work with recompilation. Microsoft has not made a statement about desktop apps and Arm.
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