Can non-Metro Windows apps (ex: Explorer) be built with the new WinRT, or must they still be Win32 based?
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Can non-Metro Windows apps (ex: Explorer) be built with the new WinRT, or must they still be Win32 based?
I asked this during the ‘Ask the Experts’ session at //Build/. The answer was “Yes, within reason. Not all of the WinRT api’s will function when called from desktop apps – for example any metro specific ones will fail. No explicit list of which ones work from desktop (non-metro) apps is available.”
Edit:
It appears that the documentation has been updated to provide a list of WinRT api’s available from the desktop.