As the final runup to Vista RTM continues, Microsoft has announced that the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) has RTMed and is available on Microsoft Downloads. This is a significant milestone for the Developer Division, and delivers on some of the promises of Windows Vista programmability on earlier platforms.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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