Hallo,
what I did not expect: Microsoft at last announced not to support applications running on Windows 8 RT which obviously means that WinForms are not supported anymore here but only WPF applications and only those whose UI design is described with XAML.
Is that correct so far?...
My situation: I wanne offer my VB6 application for tablet (and preferably for smartphones) users as well - not for PC users only.
The question now is: what is the most efficient way to do so?
I suppose the first step is to migrate the code to Windows 8 RT so that it runs on Microsoft's ARM tablets as well.
1.) How do I have to do that? I will have to migrate from VB6 to .NET first, I suppose. And then?...
My next question here is:
2.) Why did Microsoft refuse to support applications on Windows 8 RT against their announcements in the beginning (they wanted to support them as well at first!). It does not seem to me to be a technical problem cause they had to write an ARM compiler for .NET frameworks anyway, didn't they?
So is it just a marketing reason? Cause you use Visual Studio for writing code for Windows 8 RT also!...
2b.) So can't we expect that Microsoft will soon support applications on Win 8 RT as well?...
3.) Why does Microsoft make a difference for developers/code between Windows 8 Phone and Windows 8 RT? Cause both run on ARM processors. So what?... There actually is no additional difference except the display size!! And which ARE the differences for us developers here?
3b.) What do I have to do to continue my code migration also for Windows 8 Phone (after migration to Win 8 RT)??
The last step then is: migration of the resulted code to all the tablets and smartphones out there - especially Android and iOS.
Is there a chance for that as well?...
I would appreciate it if there are people who know about the backgrounds here as I am very confused about all that at the moment.
I really did not expect that not even VB.NET code can directly be compiled for Windows 8 RT platforms.
Sorry but I see this as an avoidable circumstance! Isn't it?...
Thank you for your help.
what I did not expect: Microsoft at last announced not to support applications running on Windows 8 RT which obviously means that WinForms are not supported anymore here but only WPF applications and only those whose UI design is described with XAML.
Is that correct so far?...
My situation: I wanne offer my VB6 application for tablet (and preferably for smartphones) users as well - not for PC users only.
The question now is: what is the most efficient way to do so?
I suppose the first step is to migrate the code to Windows 8 RT so that it runs on Microsoft's ARM tablets as well.
1.) How do I have to do that? I will have to migrate from VB6 to .NET first, I suppose. And then?...
My next question here is:
2.) Why did Microsoft refuse to support applications on Windows 8 RT against their announcements in the beginning (they wanted to support them as well at first!). It does not seem to me to be a technical problem cause they had to write an ARM compiler for .NET frameworks anyway, didn't they?
So is it just a marketing reason? Cause you use Visual Studio for writing code for Windows 8 RT also!...
2b.) So can't we expect that Microsoft will soon support applications on Win 8 RT as well?...
3.) Why does Microsoft make a difference for developers/code between Windows 8 Phone and Windows 8 RT? Cause both run on ARM processors. So what?... There actually is no additional difference except the display size!! And which ARE the differences for us developers here?
3b.) What do I have to do to continue my code migration also for Windows 8 Phone (after migration to Win 8 RT)??
The last step then is: migration of the resulted code to all the tablets and smartphones out there - especially Android and iOS.
Is there a chance for that as well?...
I would appreciate it if there are people who know about the backgrounds here as I am very confused about all that at the moment.
I really did not expect that not even VB.NET code can directly be compiled for Windows 8 RT platforms.
Sorry but I see this as an avoidable circumstance! Isn't it?...
Thank you for your help.