I’m here at the Microsoft BUILD conference in Anaheim and am very much enjoying all the announcements surrouding the next major release of Windows (at least a year or two out). One of the big speculations that has drawn a lot of confusion over the past few months is whether .Net is going to part of the next generation of Windows. It seems that Microsoft had been telegraphing quite a bit about how C++ will be the language of choice to program going into the Microsoft future.
Well, I’m sure that .Net is a part of Windows 8. I also now know that if you want to continue to write c# or vb code for the “new” part of Windows 8 (Metro) you can, however Microsoft has created a new API they are calling WinRT. WinRT does have a full CLR and the languages c# and vb will be supported. However, the API you call has changed. Miguel has a great article that explains much of this here: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Sep-15.html
It’s a brave new world! Much has changed, much is the same.
