Porting a Windows Phone 7 application to Windows 8

I have a few meetings coming up discussing porting Windows Phone applications to Windows 8.

The good news is both platforms use:

• C#
• .NET
• XAML

However… the devil is in the detail 🙂

Take a look at these tasters:

• MSDN Documentation Porting Silverlight or WPF XAML/code to a Metro style app
• Maximizing Code Reuse Across Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apps by Alnur Ismail (August 2012)
• Telerik case study moving from Phone to Windows 8 (May 2012)
• Designing a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Design Case Study Part 1
• How to design a Windows 8 Metro style app starting from an existing Windows Phone app – Part 2

• Windows Phone to Windows 8 by Jared Bienz (April 2012)
• User Interface – New and Different Controls, Porting UI, Form Factors
• View States using Visual State Manager – Sample for handling Portrait and Snapped views using VSM
• Application Framework – WinRT, Components, Asynchronous Code

I will add anything else I find. Happy porting!