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Project Transcender Standard Windows Forms to Windows 8 Metro Style porting tool

Project Transcender Standard Windows Forms to Windows 8 Metro Style porting tool . Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. Agenda. Introduction Research Problem Our Solution Uniqueness Technologies used Demonstration. Introduction. Windows 8.

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Project Transcender Standard Windows Forms to Windows 8 Metro Style porting tool

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  1. Project TranscenderStandard Windows Forms to Windows 8 Metro Style porting tool Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

  2. Agenda • Introduction • Research Problem • Our Solution • Uniqueness • Technologies used • Demonstration

  3. Introduction

  4. Windows 8 • New User Experience – Metro Style Apps • Targets Touch Based Devices • Fast and Fluid • Programming Flexibility • Hardware Utilization

  5. The Difference • Windows 8 • .NET 4.5 • Visual Studio 12 • WinRT • Windows 7 and earlier OS • .NET 4.0 • Visual Studio 10 • Win32

  6. The developers perspective(Research Problem)

  7. How the developer gets affected?

  8. How the developer gets affected? • Time & Money • Companies and individuals will have to allocate more resources to rewrite their existing applications in Metro Style. • Learning curve • Need to rethink the UI design according to new concepts • Changes in the .NET framework and related APIs • Need to have knowledge on Windows 8 and it’s new features

  9. Our Solution A porting tool to automate the conversion.

  10. Our Porting Process Windows Forms Application Convert the GUI Convert code behind Convert Configuration files Metro Style Application

  11. Scope • Usages of essential GUI Controls • Frequently used .NET libraries will be mapped • No 3rd party components will be supported. To improve the scalability we have provided methods to add controls and libraries to the porting process

  12. Uniqueness

  13. The state of art today Possible, reasonable effort Possible, but more effort One-to-one mapping Development skills similar

  14. Setting the trend…

  15. Setting the trend…

  16. Business Model

  17. Technologies Used

  18. Demo

  19. Q & A

  20. Thank you!

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