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Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET

From	Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.lang.vb, alt.comp.lang.visualbasic, comp.lang.basic.misc, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb, microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb.upgrade
Subject	Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET
Date	2012-01-13 14:14 -0700
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Mayayana used his keyboard to write :
>> 
>> I don't know if youv'e been paying attention...  Win32 is pretty 
>> much deprecated.
>> 
>
> It's the basis of WinRT.
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html
>
> http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2011/09/15/winrt-and-net-in-windows-8.aspx
> "most if not all WinRT APIs are wrappers on top of existing 
> functionality in  Win32 or COM components."
>
>   If you search on WinRT and API you find lots of
> people saying that WinRT is "finally replacing the
> old, decrepit API". And you'll find a few people, like
> the links above, pointing out that WinRT, like .Net
> before it, is no more than a [bloated] sandboxing
> wrapper on top of the basic OS.
>

You can not access Win32 functions directly in a metro app.  For all 
practicle purposes, it is dead to the a developer targeting the metro 
interface.  Period.  To think that WinRT does not make use of Win32 at 
this point would be naive at best.

>> Well, in windows 8 and beyond - Metro is the native desktop.  WinRT 
>> is the api.  Win32 and the old dekstop are legacy.
>> ..... VB6 will continue to work on
>> the legacy desktop, which we know will be phased out in the not to 
>> many versions hence.
>> 
>
>   Legacy... legacy... PCs are legacy. Mouse and keyboard
> are legacy. The Win API is legacy. VB is legacy. Desktops
> and file systems are legacy. Whatever "legacy" is, it sounds
> rather useful and comnprehensive. 

Keep saying that when you want your apps to run on Windows 8 arm 
devices...

-- 
Tom Shelton

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Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2012-01-04 18:23 -0500
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-05 09:25 -0500
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2012-01-05 16:33 +0000
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-05 14:57 -0500
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid> - 2012-01-05 22:32 +0100
    Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-01-06 02:50 +0000
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-01-09 20:29 -0700
    Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-10 09:22 -0500
      Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-10 10:14 -0700
        Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-10 17:04 -0500
        Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-11 21:02 +0100
          Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2012-01-12 15:33 +0100
            Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-12 23:58 -0500
          Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-12 09:34 -0700
            Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-13 20:17 +0100
              Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 14:31 -0500
              Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 13:22 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-13 16:07 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 14:14 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-13 20:58 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-01-19 19:10 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-14 00:12 +0100
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2012-01-14 00:24 +0100
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-14 00:58 +0100
              Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 19:35 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 22:46 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 23:50 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-14 14:31 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-14 22:47 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 01:26 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 07:54 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 14:09 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 16:47 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 16:49 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 21:16 -0500

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