Re: Cheapskate Wants to Buy Visual C++

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

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Date:

Fri, 5 Jan 2007 06:00:07 -0800

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Hi Troels,

I can certainly understand how this would look like lack of support, but to
be fair the MFC framework is already pretty complete and pretty stable so
there isn't much more that can be added before Vista is officially on the
street for a while and the newer controls can be supported.

I agree that Microsoft has been putting a lot of resource into .NET, but
that is a totally new product (recent anyway) and it does require a lot of
catch up. I'm not sure which way the world will go eventually, but my
opinion is that all of the tools need to be considered for each application
and the appropriate one used based on the current need.

Tom

"Troels" <tk@tk.tk> wrote in message
news:459e20e8$0$49201$14726298@news.sunsite.dk...

Baxter wrote:

MSDN lists a whole raft of classes and features that are new with Visual
Studio 2005.

I'm afraid not.

As you provided no link I went looking, and found (only) this:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235433(vs.80).aspx

Hardly a 'whole raft'. Apparently nothing but a few ditties.

Regards

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