Question

I need to develop common UI which will run on both desktop and metro.

Is this possible.I wanted to use same code for UI both in desktop and metro app

I know that Win RT is Supported on both desktop and metro.

Answer 1

I believe your question is about creating an application that works like both Metro Style and also as a traditional desktop app. What you need to do is to wrap all your business logic code into a WinRT DLL and create two different UI applications one using XAML and another using windows Form and consume the DLL.

But ideally you cant have a single exe that runs like a native app and a metro style app, you should have two exe’s.

Another thing is the native app which you develop in this manner may not be backward compatible because in build conference i remember them saying WinRT is only from Windows 8 onwards. so you cant run your native app in Windows 7.