vista - managed code

[Guest]

Just out of interest, how much of Vista, Office 2K8, Visual Studio 2K8 is
written in managed code?

guy

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Guy,

Managed code is not the only development environment supported by Microsoft.

Why should they use it. Probably most of there librarys are not in that. Did
they write somewhere that you ***should*** use managed code.

For the rest sounds this the same for me as asking to AirBus how often they
use there big planes themselves instead of cars.

Cor

 

[Guest]

er?

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Just out of interest, how much of Vista, Office 2K8, Visual Studio 2K8 is
written in managed code?

You got some kind of proof here that the above applications are .Net managed
code applications? I kind of doubt that they are .Net managed solutions.

 

[Michael D. Ober]

You got some kind of proof here that the above applications are .Net
managed code applications? I kind of doubt that they are .Net managed
solutions.

I just did a simple check of the devenv.exe for VS 2005. It appears to be
written in C#, which would qualify it as a managed code application. Also,
it is possible to write an entire OS except for specific hardware handlers
in "managed" code. Digital Equipment did this 30 years ago with VAX/VMS.
This happens to be the major reason there are so few security holes in
OpenVMS today.

Mike Ober.

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

Just out of interest, how much of Vista, Office 2K8, Visual Studio 2K8 is
written in managed code?

For Vista, you may want to look at
http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vistaAndDotnet.htm

VS2008 is a mix of native and managed code.

Office 2K8 isn't out yet <g>


Mattias