Respecting Your Investments: How to Leverage Your Existing Code In a New Windows Runtime LOB App

The Discussion

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  could i reuse the wpf xaml codes???
  if not, no help for me

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  Same here.

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  Sorry, I don't know anything about XAML or UI development. I'd suggest checking out the Desktop Development Panel talk: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-563

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  Key takeaway:
  Side-loaded Windows Runtime apps may now communicate with other processes running on the system.
  -- Use network loopback for inter-process communication.
  

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  @AndrewDover: ... but silly restrictions and barriers to side loading will prevent this awesomeness from being utilized as a migration path for most desktop applications

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  Brilliant.
  
  You can't straight reuse XAML, but you can get up to the View Model level. You can probably create a new screen in the mobile platform then copy over the inner contents and change the small parts you need to.
  

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  FYI, links to all the sample code - including the NorthwindRT demo from the keynote - are up on my blog: http://devhawk.net/2014/04/04/enterprise-winrt-apps-build-roundup/

   

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  Silverlight contained a Messaging API for instances of your app to talk, couldn't they have re-used that?
  
  Else SingalR for .NET or something indeed could be used via the local-loopback