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    LongHorn Yumminess and .NET Questions

    Ok, David pointed out a very good article on LongHorn and everytime I see more of what it can do I'm just that much more amazed and totally pumped for it!

    One question that's always on my mind though is how is .NET all mixed up in this?  Are LongHorn programmers using managed code for some of this really cool stuff or are they still using all unmanaged code?  And also, what will LongHorn bring to the .NET table for you and me as developers?

    Posted: May 12 2003, 06:02 PM by HumanCompiler | with 1 comment(s)
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    Robert McLaws said:

    It is my understanding from various b0rg contacts that Longhorn may eliminate the Win32 API entirely, which would mean that the entire shell would be built on top of a managed code base, and would also mean that the entire API would be exposed to .NET. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen, but I have heard this from several different sources at MS.
    # May 12, 2003 8:08 PM