[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,

Watch this thread http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wtl/message/13062 - the
answer on your question may appear here:
<quote>
Nenad and others - I read conflicting things about how Vista will work, like
the WIN32 core will be gone, and everything will be .NET. I don't know
how much of this is rumor (I haven't read *that* much :) but I was really
pleased to read that WTL 8 will support Vista.
</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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