Re: .Net breaks compatibility

From: Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) (rvelthuis_at_gmx.de)
Date: 01/09/04 

Date: 9 Jan 2004 04:17:21 -0700

Chris Bell wrote:

> Hmm, not exactly a new platform. You've still got access to the Win32
> API and COM.

Via marshalling, P/Invoke, etc. Not directly. The platform is very
different, and, most important of all, managed.
 
> Is there technically any reason why the ADO classes couldn't be
> migrated to Delphi 8? I very much doubt it. So the statement "We made
> it as simple as possible. We always have." is not accurate

I guess it is. I guess more was not possible at the moment. 

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Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)
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