Vista and .NET (Win32 life may be limted)

At the ACCU conference yesterday, Herb Sutter (MS Architect)
said that there are 10,000 new classes in .NET 2 and 100,000 methods.
He then went on to say that only *some* of these are available in
the Win32API and that the *only* way to get at the other APIs was
using .NET which was why the C++/CLI compiler was created
(a lot of MS Apps are written in C++ and wouldn't be able to access
the Vista APIs otherwise).
I assume that Herb knows what he is talking about, so this must
be definitive information. (?)
Rgds Pete


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