What's up with WTL - Is it still alive?
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Has anyone heard any news about WTL? It made quite a splash but there dosn't seem to be much of a follow up. Is Microsoft planning to turn it into a real, supported product or just let it languish in limbo? I would love to start using WTL for production code, but there is no way management would go for an unsupported, "bleeding edge" development too
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Has anyone heard any news about WTL? It made quite a splash but there dosn't seem to be much of a follow up. Is Microsoft planning to turn it into a real, supported product or just let it languish in limbo? I would love to start using WTL for production code, but there is no way management would go for an unsupported, "bleeding edge" development too
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We looked into it in depth a few months back. The short answer is you'll never see it. MS reps claim that it never should have been released in the first place. Presumably they wanted it to go away so as to not steal any thunder from .NET framework
I smell MS shit here. As usually they bought good library and then killed it
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I smell MS shit here. As usually they bought good library and then killed it
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We looked into it in depth a few months back. The short answer is you'll never see it. MS reps claim that it never should have been released in the first place. Presumably they wanted it to go away so as to not steal any thunder from .NET framework
Actually, this information is incorrect. One program manager did say this, but was immediate reversed by a higher up program manager. WTL will stay unsupported, but it will get improvements. I hear the next version of the Platform SDK may well have a number of improvements to it. But, Microsofts primary direction is .NET.