The following came from Keith Brown's book.
"...as anyone who has experience with the .NET Framework knows, the framework class library wraps only a fraction of the functionality of the Windows platform..."
I was glad to one of the "anyone" group. It was the first thing I noticed when doing .Net stuff. There were certain things I wanted to do but did not know the .Net way of doing it or how to find the Win32 API equivalent.
I thought I was being cool when I did a System tray application. I just learned about the Shell_NotifyIcon function. Just never took the time to dig into the MSDN Library like I probably aught to have done.
As I read more from Keith's book, and discussing .Net I found a good argument for using Managed C++. Funny, it seems so obvious. It was also my argument against non [Microsoft] C++ compilers. The Win32 API is native to Visual C++; no special dance needs to take place to call on thise functions.
Posted by Michael at December 1, 2004 06:24 PM