Windows Runtime (WinRT)

1. Provide full access to devices, operating systems and services

2. More convenient to call the Win32 API, project to C + +, C#/VB, HTML

3.API is asynchronous.

4.xaml-based UI (Silverlight,wpf,winphone)

5. Developing the Win8 Store app

. NET developers are familiar with. NET P/invoke and COM Interop, both of which make. NET staff can use the Win32 API and COM components.

There are many ways to create a native library, but the work is done manually, tedious and error-prone, and WINRT is also an innovative way for all developers to create Metro UI applications with the same model.

Example: To use the device's camera (Windows API)

. Net:D llimport ("Avicap32.dll")

WinRT: Using Windows.Media.Capture