Microsoft provides a tool for porting iPhone applications to Windows Phone 7.

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Microsoft releasedAPI ing toolGuides and a group of videos sharing experiences to help simplify iPhone/iOS app portingProgramWork on Windows Phone 7 (WP 7.

The Microsoft Windows Phone interoperability group createsOnline toolsTo find the Windows Phone 7 API call corresponding to some iOS API calls. This tool cannot automatically process applicationsSource codeAnd convert them to the equivalent WP 7.CodeBut it can help iPhone programmers find the class or method that is equivalent to the IOS class or method. In addition, this tool is for iOS 4.2 and does not cover all ios api categories-audio/video, data management, graphics/animation, network/Internet, performance, security, and user interface, currently, only the Network/Internet, user interface, and Data Management APIs are provided for guidance, but more APIs will be covered in the future. This tool provides a hyperlink to the Windows Phone 7 online msdn document for each of its suggested API classes/methods.

Microsoft also wrote 90 pagesWindows Phone 7 guide for iPhone application developers(PDF), which introduces the Windows Phone 7 development platform to iOS developers and presents the required basic tools, WP 7 architecture, programming system, andProgramming LanguageAnd user interface.

In addition to the ing tool and the WP 7 instruction manual, there are also someDeveloper storiesThose who have moved their iPhone applications to WP 7 through video sharing their experiences and what they learned along the way.

This toolkit is intended for iOS developers who are willing to port their applications to Windows Phone 7. It is clearly not a dream tool for porting applications, but it opens the world of WP 7, it also helps speed up the entire conversion process.