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 Rules bit.ly/OWDe2A

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