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quotemstr on Sept 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Developer interest in Windows 8 is stagnant, new l...

> lack of VirtualAlloc() and VirtualProtect() functions

While these API not be in the "modern" SDK, the system calls behind them still work just fine. (They have to: otherwise, malloc wouldn't work.)

You can walk ntdll's export table manually and find NtProtectVirtualMemory and friends.

Also, SYSENTER is a thing.

wolfgke on Sept 27, 2012 [–]

But you are forced to use Microsoft's App Store for Metro applications. Even if this works (I haven't tested it, but it seems plausible) you'll probably never able to get your application through Microsoft's certification process... :-(

quotemstr on Sept 27, 2012 | [–]

How would they know?

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