Can UWP apps be ported to Windows 7?

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Jim picture Jim · Dec 3, 2015 · Viewed 26.7k times · Source

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?

Answer

Chris Shao picture Chris Shao · Dec 3, 2015

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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