Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with
VS-.Net?

M. Scott Blalock

You'll need to at least have the framework to build an app. Using Unsafe
code you can do a lot, call old .dll's (after all, isn't most of .NET just
an elegant OO wrapper of COM?) etc etc etc.

As an old C++ programmer, there's not a good reason to use VS.NET to write
old school stuff...and no, you can't write anything that won't run under the
framework.

HTH,

Bill
"M. Scott Blalock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with
> VS-.Net?
>
> M. Scott Blalock
>

"William Ryan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> You'll need to at least have the framework to build an app. Using Unsafe
> code you can do a lot, call old .dll's (after all, isn't most of .NET just
> an elegant OO wrapper of COM?) etc etc etc.
>
> As an old C++ programmer, there's not a good reason to use VS.NET to write
> old school stuff...and no, you can't write anything that won't run under
the
> framework.
>

Well, I'm pretty sure that you can use plain ole C++ and ATL or MFC if you
want to, I know I wrote a silly vanilla C app not long ago. You no longer
have access to VB6, but C++ is still completly capable of targeting the
system natively

> HTH,
>
> Bill
> "M. Scott Blalock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1eaae01c38950$927fbda0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with
> > VS-.Net?
> >
> > M. Scott Blalock
> >
>
>

You can use C++ to build native applications as long as you only use
unmanaged code. To run a C#, VB.Net or managed C++ application, you must
have the .Net Framework installed on the client machine.


"M. Scott Blalock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with
> VS-.Net?
>
> M. Scott Blalock
>