Creating Type dynamically in Windows 8 / Windows Store apps

Question

Is is possible to create types dynamically in Windows Store apps (8 or 8.1)?

I'm trying to port a Silverlight application to Windows 8, but System.Reflection.Emit seems pretty scaled down compared to Silverlight and full .NET. Specifically, I'm missing types such as AssemblyBuilder, ModuleBuilder, TypeBuilder, FieldBuilder, MethodBuilder , ILGenerator etc.

If these types are really not supported, is there some other way to build types dynamically in WinRT?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This isn't supported in WinRT.  The ability to dynamically build types like you could in Silverlight and the full framework doesn't really exist in the limited WinRT framework.

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Answer 2

Thanks for the reply.

Bad news for me, I guess. It's a shame they kill one platform without at least providing the same capabilities on the new platform...doesn't really help boosting the adoption of Windows 8, I think.