Re: [GD-Windows] Visual C++ .Net

[Rich <leg...@xm...>]

[man, why can't this list automatically respond to the list, its such
a pain...]

In article <5.1...@wk...>,
    Brian Hook <bri...@py...>  writes:
> Is anyone here seriously thinking about upgrading their MSVC to MSVC 
> .Net?

Well its really VC7.  The ".net" stuff is just marketing hype.

Bug fixes, better generated code, better standard library support,
updated MFC, updated ATL, improved IDE, better automation support in
the IDE, better Wizard support in the IDE, what's not to like?

>Information on the latter is very sparse at Microsoft's Web site, 
> and -- here's the killer -- even if it offers incremental improvements, 
> apparently it won't support generating code for Win95(!).

That sounds like CLR code.  I bet good ole Win32 C++ apps compile to
Win95 just fine.  I can believe that CLR-based stuff (.net languages
like C#, VB.NET, "managed C++ code", etc.) won't run on Win95, but I
expect that plain C++ apps will run just fine.
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