I have a winforms application and was wondering whether I should attempt to move it to Windows store app (and WPF) or not. I would expect metro style apps to have the same potential as desktop apps, but what got me wondering is the fact that VS 2012 is not a metro app. It doesn’t really surprise me much as every metro app I’ve seen so far look like a phone app that can’t really do much and I can’t imagine how VS would look like as a metro app.
Seems to me like Microsoft wants to slowly move everything to metro, otherwise I don’t see the point on introducing a whole new visual experience just to get stuck with having to switch between metro and desktop, but even Notepad is still a desktop application. So my question is, basically, is every kind of application supposed to be movable to metro or is metro only for small phone-like applications?
Metro-style apps are for content consumption, like you would find on a tablet.
Classical desktop apps are for content creation.