Does .net replace win32?

From: Dan (newcombe_at_mordor.clayton.edu)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 00:51:28 -0400

Okay...one last question. I've pretty much spent the weekend reading
up on .Net, Soap, web services and enough three letter acronyms to
feed the world alphabet soup.

Is it a fair and mostly true statement to say that when programming
Visual C++ using .Net, the .Net stuff basically replaces the Win32
API? I know you can still make a call back to win32 if need be, but
the general idea I gather is that .Net is the new "platform" to sit
ontop of windows for general applications, with Windows Forms
replacing MFC, etc...

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