title: Any way to use XAML and WPF from native C++ application on Windows x, where x < 8?
body: <p>So we've got a legacy application that uses MFC and win32 resources to specify the user interface elements. In looking at C++/CX and WRL, I see a number of possibilities. However, we're not interested presently in the Windows Store or the Modern UI.We need to support Windows 7 for a good while yet, and we'll probably always want to be a desktop application. Is there a migration path away from MFC and resource files to an XML-based UI specification that allows us to keep writing native C++ (at least for 90% of the existing code base) but doesn't require Windows 8 or restrict us to the Metro sandbox?</p>