There is no desktop on the IOT version, so Winform apps are not going to run. One of the things about the IOT version is that the GUI, be it Web or classic Win32 / winforms, is running elsewhere and from the MS perspective ideally somewhere on Azure, there's a reason that the IOT part is "free". Mo...

Researching this some more I've come across another option. It seems MS are open-sourcing .NET and bring it to Linux and Mac. So I could wait for that to happen and then run my existing app on Linux. I have actually tried running it on the Rpi on mono but the UI was really slow and I couldn't figure...

fruitoftheloom wrote:I posted this because it has links to other resources regarding Universal Apps

Ah, OK. I'll have another look. Thanks!

You can't run a winform application. That's a shame if true. More than half of the development effort (not necessarily number of lines of code) went into the UI. I really wouldn't want to re-do all of that just to save a few watts by using an Rpi. It might be best for me to wait for the official re...

fruitoftheloom wrote:http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lucian/archive/ ... arted.aspx

Thanks, but this is for Windows 10, not the IoT version. So this doesn't really apply, I'm afraid.

Hi! I have developed an application on Visual Studio Express 2010 in C# using .NET 4 and Windows Forms. Basically it is the packet router of my own home automation project. It is currently running fine on Windows 7 24/7. There are several USB-to-serial port adapters connected to this machine and the...