Windows Store 8.1 and System.Windows.Forms

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Recently, I tried to make a battery app (C#, store app) for Windows 8.1 (I am using VS2013, tried also VS2012 with the same result). As it turned out, I need to add a Reference to the project - but I cannot add anything in Reference Manager: it says "All of the Framework assemblies are already referenced". And all what I need is to get System.Windows.Forms - when I search for it, nothing appears.

Any ideas, what can I do? (Please tell me if I forgot something essential)

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Windows store apps are Silverlight, not WF. - Andro
Actually, 8.1 isn't necessarily Silverlight either, could be Store/Phone XAML or Store/Universal XAML - Peter Ritchie
@duobix Maybe re-phrasing the question to ask how to do something in a Windows Phone app that was previously available in WinForms would get the answer you want. - Peter Ritchie

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Windows Store Apps are build, from scratch, on new technology stack , So Windows Form and WPF are not part of Windows Store apps.

  • Windows store apps and Windows Forms apps has there different set of APIs.
  • Windows store apps are used to known as known as Metro apps and Right now they have been merging the stuff(don't want to go into the details).

This will give a basic knowledge about this new Technology

So, above are the just a small hints about the differences. Actually, It is not possible to explain all the stuff here. Just explore.