Re: Vista and .NET (Win32 life may be limted)

"Pete Fraser" wrote:
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

The Win32 life is assured years into the future and will only begin be in
jeopardy when Microsoft stops releasing Win32 operating systems. With that
said, be aware that it is unlikely that Vista will not run Win16 apps, my
own personal experience indicates that it will not run Delphi-1 apps.

Before you run off the Vista roadmap and end up in the ditch by making a
wrong conclusion, such as "(Win32 life may be limited)" you should visit the
Windows Vista Developer Center and read up on the new Vista APIs.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/vistatopten.asp

To gain a better appreciation of the what APIs Vista is using, download the
2.8 MB TopTenWave.exe which contains a listing of 7,125 descriptions of the
APIs, most all of which are new, along with a help file of explanations.
This is preliminary information and covers Vista through Beta2
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/e/2/8e261f30-fd82-4829-b116-a70fa078dcf8/Top10Wave.exe

And if you want, you can download the whole Windows/Vista SDK which IIRC is
well over a GB.



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