Porting a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight app to a Metro style app using C++, C#, or Visual Basic is relatively easy to do. Most of your knowledge and experience will transfer to the model for Metro style apps using XAML, as will much of your XAML interface design and layout. Most of your app porting effort will occur in moving from the Silverlight APIs called in the code-behind to the corresponding Windows Runtime APIs.

 

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