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Vista APIs

Started by Uphoreum Dec 15, 2006 at 10:27 PM 6 replies 750+ views

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Dec 15, 2006 at 10:27 PM

I may have asked this question before in some form or another, but anyways: Will there be any new APIs with Vista, or simply updates to the Win32Api and the .Net framework? Looking at the Vista Wikipedia Page I see several new APIs listed in the "Developer Technologies" section, but they seem to be all part of the .NET Framework 3.0. It just makes me think that maybe the new windows application technologies are moving towards .NET and managed. Are they keeping native APIs alive, or are they changing their focus? I thought the .NET Framework was just a wrapper around traditional Windows APIs?

Colin Jeanne

Dec 15, 2006 at 11:58 PM

There are many new APIs in Vista. For example, there are many new COM interfaces relating to the new property system (such as IShellItem2 and IPropertyStore) and the new search subsystem (such as ISearchFolderItemFactory). If you dont want to use the COM side of Win32 there are still many new functions to work with. I've personally gotten a lot of use out of the DWM API.

In short, Win32 is not being replaced by .NET nor is it dying in any way.

Uphoreum

Dec 16, 2006 at 12:22 PM

It's kinda hard to tell if Microsoft wants developers to use .NET or not. You'd think they would, since they took the time to design and implement it, but at the same time, they don't push it very much.

iMalc

Dec 16, 2006 at 1:59 PM

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Original post by Uphoreum
It's kinda hard to tell if Microsoft wants developers to use .NET or not. You'd think they would, since they took the time to design and implement it, but at the same time, they don't push it very much.

I hope that was a joke!

For instance, VS2005 Express works immediately with .NET but you have to jump through hoops to use Win32.
If you've attended or watched any Microsoft seminar in the last few years then their push to .NET should be rather apparent.
It just makes some of us push back[smile]

Uphoreum

Dec 16, 2006 at 2:17 PM

Oh yea, I guess that's true.

Nevermind. I don't know what I'm talking about, lol

It's just, people always say that it won't be used for professional game development, or, at least that's what I got out of it.

joelmartinez

Dec 16, 2006 at 2:24 PM

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Original post by Uphoreum
... It's just, people always say that it won't be used for professional game development ...

http://msdn.com/xna

:-)

Uphoreum

Dec 16, 2006 at 2:28 PM

I know, but I read that people see XNA as a hobbyist API, and professionals won't use it (event XNA Pro), but I suppose that's just someones opinion.

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