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Joe SHI
Joe SHI

Reputation: 1796

Will the application built by visual studio 2012 be Metro style by default?

I am planning to build up an application which can run on both windows 7 & 8. And also I want it to be Metro (Modern UI) style. My question, if I build an application using visual studio 2012, will it be Metro style by default.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1040

Answers (2)

Jsinh
Jsinh

Reputation: 2579

Windows 8 APP can be more specifically called as the apps that can be installed and used from windows app store only. The are metrois by nature. But if you dive into the project for such kind of app you will observe the Metro style is just a theme applied as CSS or Theme.xaml in WPF and Silverlight.

You can create a libraries that can be used to target multiple platform. Also there are few Metro style themes available for .NET 4.0 and 4.5 application which are intended to run on Windows 7 to keep the UI layout consistent.

Upvotes: 0

sLedgem
sLedgem

Reputation: 501

Nope

Metro style is for windows 8 only. If you want to create an app to run on both win8 and win7, you have to create a normal windows desktop application. Also bear in mind that such an app will not work on the cheaper (WinRT versions) of the surface tablets

Upvotes: 1

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