VisualWorks and Windows 8 Metro Applications

Has anyone looked at how hard it would be to use VisualWorks to create
a Windows Runtime (WinRT) application? If this could be done,
VisualWorks could make Windows 8 Metro-style applications, and not
only desktop-based applications.

My (limited) understanding is that Windows Runtime is more open for
interfacing from non-managed applications than .NET frameworks, like
WPF, are.

About Windows Runtime:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime

Kind regards
Runar
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Runar,

Yes, Cincom has started investigating this as Arden Thomas, Cincom Smalltalk
Product Manager, mentioned this in his presentation at STIC - Smalltalk
Industry Conference in Biloxi
(http://www.stic.st/wp-content/conferences/2012/Wednesday/1030-Cincom_Smallt
alk_News_2012-Thomas.pdf,  Slide 24).

>From what I have heard, it is not so easy.

Georg

Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812
Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen
Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712


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Betreff: [vwnc] VisualWorks and Windows 8 Metro Applications

Has anyone looked at how hard it would be to use VisualWorks to create a
Windows Runtime (WinRT) application? If this could be done, VisualWorks
could make Windows 8 Metro-style applications, and not only desktop-based
applications.

My (limited) understanding is that Windows Runtime is more open for
interfacing from non-managed applications than .NET frameworks, like WPF,
are.

About Windows Runtime:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime

Kind regards
Runar
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At a rough (and mostly uninformed) guess, I'd think that ObjectStudio would be a better fit for that than VW.


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