Microsoft Lost the Backwards Compatibility Religion !!
Posted by vineetagarwal on March 10, 2007
The making of Visual basic.net made Microsoft loose the backwards compatibility religion as it was not compatible with the older version that is the visual basic 6.0.But seeing this inside Microsoft, the MSDN magazine took place and let overcome this ambiguity and now it was ok to change things. As the IIS 6.0 came out some of the customers using the windows 2003 server got a problem running some of the applications this was because the .net framework 1.1 was not compatible with the .net 1.0 Now it was the time for Microsoft to change something and it was the most famous API of windows that is the Win32 so instead of making changes they decided to entirely replace it. The newly replaced windows API are the
WinFX: the next generation Windows API. All different. Based on .NET with managed code XAML Avalon. Yes, vastly superior to Win32, I admit it. But not an upgrade: a break with the past
For more on WinFx visit: “http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/24/longhorn_01.htm”



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