RE: [Dev-C++] learning c++, best book

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
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> > Something very important. The next Windows version=20
> codenamed "Longhorn"
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> I don't understand really fine Ioannis. Does this mean that=20
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> written using the standard Win32 API (This including those=20
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> will no longer work with Longhorn ?
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> As far as I can read in the MSDN article, it does not tell=20
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> that future Visual studios release will not support Win32 anymore.
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> Can you be more precise about this ?


I can't be more precise about this since this is what i have seen. MS
says that Longhorn will provide only managed apis (at least in some
areas?). What we can safely assume from this is that at least no further
Win32/MFC etc development will occur.


Ioannis

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