Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Microsoft launches new tool to convert apps from iOS to Windows phone 7

Microsoft has launched a new developer tool last Friday called the iOS to Windows Phone 7 API mapping tool and helps developers to port their iOS apps over to Windows Phone 7 platform.

This means that the developer will not have to work from scratch to write the WP7 app, thus saving him a lot of simple coding. Microsoft plans to add more platforms to the tool, and Android will surely be one of them. The tool converts iOS code snippets directly to the equivalent C# for WP7 apps.
Microsoft is the platform with the least number of apps, quite far behind both iOS and Android, so it is a good effort to rectify the situation, and lure more developers to the platform.

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