Many of you have asked if we're planning on releasing Visiblox
Charts for WinRT. Well of course we would be remiss if we
didn't, like the rest of the WPF/Silverlight ecosystem, at least
investigate WinRT as an option. Clearly, the only real way to
investigate WinRT in the context of Visiblox Charts is to port the
component itself. So that's what we did.
I should make clear, we're not quite at the stage of a finished
product yet but I thought it would be good to share some of the
initial work with you guys to satisfy your curiosity.
As has been pointed out by many people many times, while the
C#/XAML of WinRT does bear remarkable resemblance to the
Silverlight/WPF structures and APIs, it is not identical and the
transition from one to the other is not quite as seamless as one
might anticipate. Nevertheless, most of the APIs are the same
or have equivalent counterparts so it's a whole lot easier than
starting from scratch, that's for sure.
"Enough of the blathering", you say, so let's get on with it and
show you some of the results:
I'm afraid I don't have an exact release date for you on when
this might be available to our users but what I can say is that the
more interest we get, the higher it goes on our to-do list so be
sure to let us know if you're in need of a WinRT version of
Visiblox Charts!
We're also planning on posting some of our experiences in doing
the port because that could be very interesting information for
you. Do let us know if that's something you'd be interested
in reading about and we'll be sure to follow up with more
information.
