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Using Visual Studio 11 is it possible to build WinRT applications on Windows 7?
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Compatibility. UWP is a part of Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile and Windows 11. UWP apps do not run on earlier Windows versions. Apps that are capable of implementing this platform are natively developed using Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio 2022.
WinRT can be described as an API at the same level as Win32. The only difference with Win32 is that WinRT is exposed to all application developers.
You can access the Windows 10 APIs from a pre-existing WPF project.
WinRT allows developers to create safe "sandboxed" touchscreen applications available from the Microsoft Store. WinRT apps support both the x86 and ARM architectures and multiple programming languages, including C/C++, C#, Visual Basic and JavaScript. WinRT was augmented by the Universal Windows Platform (see UWP).
No; WinRT is only available on Windows 8 and AFAIK there have been no announcements that they will be made available in Win7. At BUILD, they specifically said that WinRT was only to be supported on Win8. By extension, you won't be able to develop against WinRT on a Win7 machine because the support just won't be made available.
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