Metro Styled Application on VS 2012 RC

Question

Hi,

Can we create new metro styled applications on VS 2012 RC on Windows 7??

Thanks

Piyush

Answer 1

As you can read in this article,

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/bring-metro-apps-to-windows-7-to-encourage-developer-growth/19730

Metro is not currently supported in Windows 7.

You can investigate this initiative:

http://mosaicproject.codeplex.com/

Answer 2

Hi piyushpi,

Here is an official site  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211386.aspx which shows this

"Important  Metro style app development is supported only on Windows 8 Release Preview. You can't develop Metro style apps on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2012."

Best regards,

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