Re: Inline class members
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message
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It was possible also with COM components and ActiveX's developed in C++
and used in Visual Basic. You added reference to the COM/ActiveX DLL and
the VB object browser showed the public methods, properties, and full
Intellisense.
But producing those ActiveX controls with the midl compiler and all that was
a real mess! With C# all that is taken care of without you seeing it. I am
glad I never have to worry about VARIANT and BSTR crap again. I never
understood ambient properties, blindly set everything to apartment
threading, struggled with guids and registry settings, etc. either.
But, instead of simplifying the development of reusable components from
C++, they invented the .NET framework and C# :(
Yes, they did! Borland VCL was the closest thing to the native C++
equivalent of .NET, but Borland C++ was never afforded the same love that
Delphi was, and I refuse to go back to Pascal.
-- David