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Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

Ian2 — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:19:06 GMT

Cool, am planning on bringing across some of my phone sequencing software* - will check out your sample!

Excellent presentation Dude!

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Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

PietAmersfoort — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:35:01 GMT

Just watched your talk at Build.

Are there any online resources available on referencing legacy dotNET dlls in a Metro style app?

posted by PietAmersfoort

Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

scarless — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:12:48 GMT

Jason, please explain how it is useful to be able to wrap legacy code if you have to port it to WinRT anyway to list your app in the App Store? Since the App Store is the SINGLE point of distrbution why did you even give this talk?

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Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

JasonOlson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:25:20 GMT

Thanks Ian . It was great to come out and share what we've been working on .

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Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

JasonOlson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:30:00 GMT

Piet, IIRC, referencing legacy dotNET dlls is not currently supported in Metro style apps. You can find more information in Krzysztof's talk: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-930C

Scarless. The amount of porting required will depend heavily on the codebase you are discussing. Some code will just come forward with little to no changes (like JavaScript). I'm assuming you are specifically talking about .NET code though. Even with porting, it's still a lot of code you can leverage in your app rather than starting from scratch. For instance, just making the .NET code into a Metro style library rather than a full-blown class library. This is a similar situation that happens today with Silverlight and the profile of the .NET Framework you have to adhere to when developing Silverlight applications.

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Re: Being pragmatic by leveraging existing code in Metro style apps

dentaku — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:10:14 GMT

Interesting looking drum machine.
I hope there's a way of sending MIDI data from a Metro app. It would be nice to make something that's like Usine Pro but that doesn't actually create any audio.
I'm just thinking about the interface building part so you can create your own MIDI/OSC controller interfaces and send that data over virtual midi cables like Midi-Yoke.

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