Is it possible to port a Windows RT app to a Windows Phone app?

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Published on 2012-10-28T21:39:42Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 23:02 UTC
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Just recently released an application to the Windows Store, and I'm wondering if it is possible to "downgrade" it to Windows Phone 7.1 - until Windows Phone 8 will arrive.

The real problem is with the async stuff, I've found the "Async Targeting Pack", but it requires Visual Studio 2012; however VS2012 doesn't work with the Phone SDK 7.0, 7.1.

I'm not in the mood to install old and ugly Visual Studio 2010 on my brand new Windows 8 machine :)

Does anyone know a workaround?

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