http://www.osnews.com/story/16407/_NET_Framework_3_0_WinFX_RTM Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:01:23 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?179582 http://osnews.com/thread?179582 Considering that .Net 3.0 is supposed to be the Win32 API replacement, effectively, for Vista, wouldn't it have been sensible to release the programming platform well in advance and not weeks before the actual OS itself? Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179588 http://osnews.com/thread?179588 It was released well in advance. Just not in RTM form. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Marcellus) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179591 http://osnews.com/thread?179591 As long as I know, is not a replacement for the Win32API, not yet.

:) Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179606 http://osnews.com/thread?179606 Released to mirrors?
Rejected that monstrosity?
Returned the milk? Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smitty_one_each) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179609 http://osnews.com/thread?179609 Considering that .Net 3.0 is supposed to be the Win32 API replacement, effectively, for Vista, wouldn't it have been sensible to release the programming platform well in advance and not weeks before the actual OS itself?

It is not a replacement for the Win32 API.

But you have been able to download beta versions for a long time as well as tools to program for it.

.NET 3.0 is:

Windows Presentation Foundation Classes (WPF) [Avalon] - The technology for building rich Windows applications with special features for managing layout, text, 2-d and 3-d graphics and much more.

Windows Communication Foundation Classes (WCF) [Indigo] - A new framework for inter-process communication that will change the way we interact with web services and the way we implement remoting.

Windows Workflow Foundation Classes (WF) - This is a framework for creating workflow engines that can be incorporated into your application

Info Spaces [InfoCards] - A very nice way to deal with controlling how you identify yourself and how much information you provide on the web. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NotParker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179627 http://osnews.com/thread?179627 One correction: The name for Microsoft's implementation of information cards is CardSpace. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (n4cer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179633 http://osnews.com/thread?179633 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_to_manufacturing Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robilad) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179636 http://osnews.com/thread?179636 Take this acronym lovers:

LMAOROTFLBTCSTCNDBFOOTWI FOAGWLLBGWTHROOTSAIAKBAYB Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (agentj) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179639 http://osnews.com/thread?179639 "I have a serious brain disease, please give me a cat." Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Get a Life) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179645 http://osnews.com/thread?179645 It is not a replacement for the Win32 API.

.Net is now what Microsoft want you to use to program on Windows. In the case of Vista the Win32 API and COM is still there for legacy reasons, but you're not going to be able to get access to any of the new Vista stuff like Avalon unless you do .Net. It's that simple. For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.

Info Spaces [InfoCards] - A very nice way to deal with controlling how you identify yourself and how much information you provide on the web.

Wow. Pulled straight out of Microsoft's marketing backside. I can identify myself well enough, thank you very much. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (segedunum) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179654 http://osnews.com/thread?179654 Released to mirrors lol
I think I saw it on ftp.gwdg.de and mirror.pacific.net.au , lol :-) Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hussam) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179658 http://osnews.com/thread?179658 For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.

Nope. Native applications will still be using the Win32 API.

If you want a managed application, you should use .NET.

Hybrid applications use both.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebet... Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NotParker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179665 http://osnews.com/thread?179665 For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.
It's still implemented using unmanaged code, for that reason it can't replace win32. Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bending Unit) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179833 http://osnews.com/thread?179833 The current .net implementation is using the win32 api, to perform many things, so you might as well call it a nice wrapper around an api that should have died 10 years ago*.

*Yes I have developed software to the win32 api. It's an interesting expierence. Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mtilsted) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?179964 http://osnews.com/thread?179964 *Yes I have developed software to the win32 api. It's an interesting hack

There fixed that for ya Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bit_Rapist) Comments