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  Going Native 2012 Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2012-02-20 16:19 -0600
    Re: Going Native 2012 Dombo <dombo@disposable.invalid> - 2012-02-21 00:52 +0100

#14337 — Going Native 2012

Going Native 2012:
    http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012

Microsoft had a conference about writing C++ code.
Who knew ?  I thought that they were all about C#
nowadays.

Bjarne Stroustrup gave a speech on C++ 11.

Lynn

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Op 20-Feb-12 23:39, Stefan Ram schreef:
> Lynn McGuire<lmc@winsim.com>  writes:
>> Microsoft had a conference about writing C++ code.
>> Who knew ?  I thought that they were all about C#
>> nowadays.
>
>    There are at least the following »strains« of development on
>    Windows:
>
>      - native (C, C++, assembler, ...)
>      - native scripting (VBS, VBA, Perl, ...)
>      - dotnet (C#, VB, ...)
>      - JVM (Java, Scala, ...)
>      - legacy (VB6, Delphi, BASIC, ...)
>      - WinRT (Windows 8, HTML+JavaScript+CSS)
>
>    But look what Microsoft uses to develop the software they
>    sell themselves, like Windows and Office: It seems to me
>    that they mainly use native languages. (Although, the
>    Windows 7 UI seems to use some XML styling language).
>
>    Years ago, it looked as if dotnet was to become the successor
>    of native development. Some companies invested to convert
>    projects to dotnet or to train programmers for dotnet. Now,
>    the C# developers are irritated from two sides: 1st "going
>    native", 2nd "going Windows 8".

Yet on the Microsoft Techdays I visited last week, C++ did not exactly 
get much attention. The HTML+JavaScript thingy seems to be only the lure 
webpage designers into developing applications for Metro.

I figure that Microsoft itself doesn't know where it wants to go today. 
Big company, many departments, no vision.

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