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I think what I'm trying to get at is that they've effectively depreciated 'C' as a language without having a native alternative that allows access to all the latest operating system features.


That's 'deprecated'.

And there's C++, which provides access to all of the C APIs, all of the COM APIs, and all of the .NET APIs (either through COM interop, or through Managed C++ or C++/CLI).

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Is that MS admitting that .NET is useless for anything other than trivial applications?


No, they're saying that lots of people still have a tremendous investment in MFC source code, and so they'll be making improvements to it if needed. As far as I'm aware, the only improvements made in MFC 8 (i.e. Visual C++ 2005) were support for hosting and being hosted by WinForms widgets.


Edited by Roger (05/07/2006 06:45)
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