Thanks to all for not mentioning 'MVVM' ... wow ... rare.

Bare foot, in the snow, up hill, both ways! That's the way it was, and we loved it.

C++

Win32, which was designed with C in mind, the WinRT APIs are written in C++ and designed from the beginning to be object oriented. User interfaces in C++ will be written primarily in XAML. This libraries for working with XAML have all been ported to C++ and are compiled to native x86. Metro applications written with XAML and C++ do not run on top of .NET, they get compiled directly to x86 just like any other Visual C++ application. Calling methods on UI controls is just like calling methods on any other object in C++. At the machine code level one pushes the this pointer onto the stack and then invokes a function via a v-table. This allows for the best possible performance even on low power devices. more ... http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/WinRT-API[^] The more things change .. the more they stay the same ... what do you think these "classes"/"templates" wrap .. guess ... wow .. win32/64 APIS ... it's just another SDK/DDK "Another library that didn’t make it into WinRT is GDI. If an application is going to use the Metro interface it needs to do so from top to bottom, it appears that mixing Metro and classic user interfaces is not possible." Really ... Win 8 will not run the thousands of MDI and Dialog base apps .. yea right .. great move... it will never happen ... I wouldn't through out your SDK 6.0-7.0 and visual studio 2008 just yet .. well not for some time .. Probably untill AFTER WIN 8 on desktops die the Vista Death.

modified on Monday, September 19, 2011 4:22 PM

"you can get most Win3.1 apps to work on Win7 64bit" ... really????

yea .. i saw how fast it boots ... mmm .. or how fast they can through an image at you ... while a wait cursor is shown till you can do anything ...

"screens are getting bigger" // but many (the new standard for home use) is 1080 ... so the same .. just bigger icons and text .. an when they don't scale icons and text on a fix 1080 ... omg .. terrible visually

think "little dots of light"

agree +5 ... but I'll be one to turn it off or probably skip to Win9 ...

Does anything move as we perceived. Movement is impossible if you consider there are an infinite number of points between any 2 points. Still frames? .. can we skip some? .. fold? ..

From my experience .. these numbers sound right for Houston area.

that's exactly what i was thinking

Maybe the intent is to make it unattractive to U.S. workers. Hello H1B. The position must be posted and /or interviewed to locals before they can hire foreign workers. I’ve seen this done many times at BMC Software and MS.

I uninstalled IE8 on Vista, misbehaving. I will wait for the second patch. Along with that, I disable Flash 10, tooo many crashes using either.

modified on Monday, July 20, 2009 10:58 AM

Agree

fixing the link Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art[^]

Sorry so hear you are having problems. I've been using it a couple of days .. no crashes. Do you have VS 2008 SP1 applied?