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Can a Windows 10 app built on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) be ported back to Windows 7 customers? In particular, one made using XAML?

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check out Morten Nielsen's Universal WPF library: github.com/dotMorten/UniversalWPF – Tamás Deme Dec 3 '15 at 11:23
    
@WiredPrairie, I'm not sure where your confusion comes from. The question is about porting. – Jim Dec 4 '15 at 1:14
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The UWP platform is only available for Windows 10 devices. We can't port it back.

If you want to use it on Windows 7 device. You can make a WPF, which use XAML, the same as UWP. And WPF can run on Window 7. Particular XAML and C# code can be reused.

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XAML is not the same as WPF. They share a lot of common features, but are different enough that only the most simple apps are easily ported. – WiredPrairie Dec 3 '15 at 11:40
    
XAML is a markup language used by WPF, while WPF itself is a technology. It's like comparing HTML with WebKit, I think. – modiX Jan 22 at 0:39

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