[AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War

> Have they made any mention of being able to stay away from .NET in the
> new OS, or is it pretty much a take-it or leave-it situation?
Josh,

Have a look what Nenad Stefanovic (MSFT) answered today:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl/message/13076

<quote>
I will give you an answer, based on what I know. Win32 will not be
demoted in Vista, it will continue to work the same way as it does in
XP. It will be enhanced with new things, and WTL will support them.
</quote>

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh McFarlane" <darsant at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: How Microsoft Lost the API War


> On 12/10/05, Shamil Salakhetdinov <shamil at users.mns.ru> wrote:
> > Josh,
> >
> > They can't do what they did with VB6/VBA developers - have a look:
>
> Shamil,
>
> Sorry if I made it sound like I thought they were going to destroy
> MFC. I've actually read many of the links you posted before and am
> pretty confident about MFC staying around.
>
> What I want is a method by which to program in native C++, but to be
> able to take advantage of the Avalon and new MFC framework without
> using .NET.
>
> Maybe I'm just overly stubborn but I don't happen to like
> framework-garbage-collectors and the various other things it "handles"
> automatically for me, nor the fact that .NET is easily reverse
> engineerable. If I'm going to be forced to use .NET, we may end up
> developing soley for the *NIX platform, as GUI options are really
> secondary in our apps to actual functioning.
>
> Have they made any mention of being able to stay away from .NET in the
> new OS, or is it pretty much a take-it or leave-it situation?
>
> --
> Josh McFarlane
>
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