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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:39:53+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Resources for native Metro app development with Delphi I’ve been searching for

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Resources for native Metro app development with Delphi

I’ve been searching for anything about how to utilize the new additions in Windows 8 in a Delphi XE2 application. Although I know there’s the new WinRT API, there has to be some resource of how to actually use it in Windows 8. It should be simple things, like how to customize how the start menu tile shows, etc. I’m sure someone’s already taken the time to figure these things out, and I’m trying to find it. The best I could find is This, but no source code.

Any leads on this? I just need some guidelines to using the WinRT API for Windows 8 in Delphi XE2.

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    Delphi XE2 pre-dates Windows 8 as you know. Windows 8 is not even finalised and the new WinRT is radically different from Win32. There is no support for WinRT in XE2.

    Anyone who is using Delphi to create WinRT apps is doing an awful lot of low level hacking. This is not a viable long term approach. Any code you may be able to produce this way will surely be thrown away when proper Delphi tooling arrives. So, in my view, you will have to wait for official Delphi support, or use the MS tools.

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