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Asked: 2026-06-14T02:52:54+00:00

I am a C++ Developer and learning developing an application that runs on Windows

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I am a C++ Developer and learning developing an application that runs on Windows 8 environment.

My current application is VC++ – Win32 (Non-MFC) application, it is compiled on Visual Studio 2005.
It runs on Windows XP, Windows 7 very well.

My Questions:

  1. Is there any tutorial available freely that help me to make my application run on Windows 8?
  2. Is it strongly required to re-write the code and convert my application to Metro Style Application?
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can run the application on Windows 8 (except Windows RT) as a regular win32 application. We currently compile our windows app with Visual Studio 2005, and it works on Windows 2000 to Windows 8.

    If you want to make it a “Windows Store App” with the interface formerly known as Metro, you’ll need to rewrite at least the user interface to use the new Metro APIs, and you won’t be able to use Visual Studio 2005 for that. If you did that you’d need to make two versions of the app, one for the “Windows store” on windows 8 and one for all previous versions of Windows.

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