My previous post is about my experience developing for Windows 8 RTM using Visual Studio 2012, there were BREAKING changes with Visual Studio 2012 and I feel obliged to map my own efforts for the benefit of other developers. So I’m going straight to the topic. Most of the content is NOT from my own experience, I put them down here to compile the gotchas.
Everything you see here is actually available as a whitepaper published by Microsoft here.
From Shai Raiten’s excellent guide here, find and replace all namespaces found below to the value on its right:
| Type | Old Value | New Value | Comment |
| Class | PointerEventArgs | PointerRoutedEventArgs | |
| Style | FocusVisualBlackStrokeBrush | FocusVisualBlackStrokeThemeBrush | |
| Style | FocusVisualWhiteStrokeBrush | FocusVisualWhiteStrokeThemeBrush | |
| Style | ApplicationHoverTextBrush | ApplicationPointerOverForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ApplicationPressedTextBrush | ApplicationPressedForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ControlDisabledTextBrush | ButtonDisabledForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ApplicationSecondaryTextBrush | ApplicationSecondaryForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemForegroundBrush | AppBarItemForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemBackgroundBrush | AppBarItemBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemHoverBackgroundBrush | AppBarItemPointerOverBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemHoverForegroundBrush | AppBarItemPointerOverForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemForegroundBrush | AppBarItemForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemPressedForegroundBrush | AppBarItemPressedForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | AppBarItemDisabledForegroundBrush | AppBarItemDisabledForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonBackgroundBrush | BackButtonBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonGlyphBrush | BackButtonForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonPressedGlyphBrush | BackButtonPressedForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonHoverBackgroundBrush | BackButtonPointerOverBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonHoverGlyphBrush | BackButtonPointerOverForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | BackButtonGlyphBrush | BackButtonForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ListViewItemPlaceholderRectBrush | ListViewItemPlaceholderBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ListViewItemOverlayBackgroundBrush | ListViewItemOverlayBackgroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ListViewItemOverlayTextBrush | ListViewItemOverlayForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Style | ListViewItemOverlaySecondaryTextBrush | ListViewItemOverlaySecondaryForegroundThemeBrush | |
| Method | this.Dispatcher.InvokeAsync( | this.Dispatcher.RunAsync |
| Type | Old Value | New Value |
| XAML | VerticalScrollMode=“Rails” | IsVerticalRailEnabled=“True” |