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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Project Transcender
Standard Windows Forms to Windows 8 Metro Style
porting tool
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
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• Introduction• Research Problem• Our Solution• Uniqueness• Technologies used• Demonstration
Agenda
Introduction
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Windows 8• New User Experience – Metro Style Apps• Targets Touch Based Devices• Fast and Fluid• Programming Flexibility• Hardware Utilization
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The Difference
Windows 7 and earlier OS
.NET 4.0
Visual Studio 10
Win32
Windows 8
.NET 4.5
Visual Studio 12
WinRT
The developers perspective(Research Problem)
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How the developer gets affected?
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•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
How the developer gets affected?
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Our SolutionA porting tool to automate the conversion.
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Windows Forms Application
Metro Style Application
Convert the GUI
Convert code
behind
Our Porting Process
Convert Configura
tionfiles
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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
Uniqueness
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The state of art today
Possible, but more effort
One-to-one mapping
Possible, reasonable effort
Development skills similar
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Setting the trend…
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Setting the trend…
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Business Model
Technologies Used
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Demo
Q & A
Thank you!