Windows Phone Silverlight Bridge to Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

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http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/09/17/initial-preview-of-silverlight-bridge-to-uwp/

 

Initial preview of Silverlight bridge to UWP

 

‎Today, ‎September ‎17, ‎2015, ‏‎59 minutes ago | Clint Rutkas

Today marks the initial release of Mobilize.NET’s Silverlight bridge, which helps Windows Phone Silverlight app developers bring their WP Silverlight 8.x apps to the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Announced at Build 2015, the Moblize.NET bridge is free and directly integrates into Visual Studio. The bridge currently maps the 700 most used APIs and handles transitioning your manifests, APIs, XAML, NuGet package references and async/await changes. More APIs and mappings will follow with future updates. Mobilize.NET has a much more in-depth post on the Silverlight bridge that goes into detail on the features, so here we share only a high-level overview of the tool.

Once you use the tool to bring your app to the UWP, your app will have all the power of a UWP app, including the ability to – from a single code base – run on a PC, phone, Xbox, HoloLens, or even a Raspberry Pi.

Running the bridge

Once installed, open up Visual Studio, load your WP Silverlight app, then right-click your project from the Solution Explorer and select the “Convert to UWP” option. Additionally, any project that is in the solution will be migrated.

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This is quite important for porting all those WP8.X apps to UWP.