[Lazarus] fpGUI
Michael Van Canneyt
michael at freepascal.org
Tue Feb 22 10:13:00 CET 2011
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:45:59PM +0100, Sven Barth wrote:
>> Of course this is not an official statement from Microsoft, but the
>> article on WinForms on Wikipedia (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation ) writes
>> this: Windows Forms has been in effect superseded by Windows
>> Presentation Foundation
>
> That's because WPF is the base of Silverlight, which they wanted to push,
> also for applications.
Just like .NET (and so Windows Forms) "superseded" Win32.
Meanwhile, Win32 is still around and functioning just fine.
And as long as Microsoft supports Visual C++, win32 will be around.
It's mostly about marketing; very little about technology.
Microsoft needs to make money, as any commercial enterprise.
Michael.
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