Re: Why no serious MS Application in .NET yet ??

From: CMM (CMM_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:41:06 -0800

If DDE and its peripheral technology posed a constant security hole and very
few developers use it and MS has been warning to abandon it for 10+ years,
then it should be removed.

"palang" wrote:

> Anf that is why there is not a wrapper API for DDE. What is the harm of
> supporting existing APIs and moving forward?
>
> "CMM" wrote:
>
> > I think that was the poster's point.
> >
> > Back in 1996 MS was toying around with the idea of completely rewriting the
> > Win32 API and create a true object oriented OS (remember Cairo?). The .NET
> > Framework IS what Cairo was suppossed to be... minus the Win32 underlying
> > layer doing all the work though.
> >
> > I strongly believe that for MS to remain competive in the long run they have
> > to strip out Win32 (and make it run as an on-the-side virtual machine for
> > compatibility) exactly the same way Apple did with MacOS. MS can keep the
> > Kernel (removing deprecated API's from it) but completely ditch Shell32 and
> > many of the other adjunct components completely. Unfortunately, MS has always
> > been hellbent on 110% backwards compatibility... which is why Windows suffers
> > from so many problems today. I mean, DDE is still there!!! (and some apps
> > including Windows Explorer still use it!!!!!).
> >
> > "Herr Lucifer" <"\n" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "alejandro lapeyre" <alejandrolapeyre@jotmail.com> wrote
> > > > The .NET is great, but it needs a lot of work to replace the windows api.
> > > > Before asking that Office is written in .NET, the ListBox should be
> > > > written in .NET!
> > >
> > > Replace the API? You're kidding! Dot Net doesn't really do anything on its
> > > own. It only calls the unmanegd APIs (built in Win32) from a managed
> > > environment. Take a look inside the framework yourslef to see what is really
> > > there.
> > > Download and use this disassembler: (Reflector)
> > > "http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet"
> > >
> > >
> > >

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