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by dpark 5354 days ago
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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brudgers 5353 days ago
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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MatthewPhillips 5353 days ago
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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dpark 5353 days ago
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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