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Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists

From	"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: VB.net (2010) Beginner Question: Directory Lists
Date	2012-05-22 15:05 -0400
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| Get this through your skull - as far as windows is concerned - the
| win32 api as you know it is deprecated. It is there and maintained for
| backwards compatability.
|

That's simply not true. .Net is a wrapper around Win32.
WinRT is a wrapper around Win32.

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

Win32 is not in any sense deprecated. It's restricted.
Read the news about Mozilla's complaints. They specifically
point out that IE (and other MS software) is using the
Windows API in Metro but that MS will not allow Firefox to
access it; and that they cannot produce a competitive browser
without that API access. Apparently the Mozilla people
thought MS would grant them an exception, but MS is no longer
under anti-trust scrutiny and they seem to have made clear
that there will be 2 classes of software going forward: The
native Microsoft programs (Office, IE, etc.) and everyone
else's sandboxed trinkets: WinRT HTAs. It's true, of course,
that WinRT is connected with battery issues, etc., but Metro
is also being put into Win8 as a wrapper GUI -- as the primary
GUI, even when there is no "swipe 'n smudge" functionality
on a given PC. And no one gets the option to choose which
native software they want to run. (Mozilla would presumably
write a lean version of Firefox for Metro and some people might
want the choice to risk their battery life. But they won't get
the choice.) Surely that's writing on the wall?

| As for your comments about C++/WinRT - huh? You do realize, that you
| can use native code libraries in winrt? You can't use the win32 api,
| but nothing stops you from creating your own...
|

I don't see the logic there. Create my own what? My
own kernel? My own hardware interface APIs? I hope
you'll make that public if you produce such a thing. It
sounds like fun. :)

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