.NET Framework

[macman87]

When you programme with Visual Studio .NET your application needs the .Net framework to run. How can i make a application less than 2 MB of size using the .NET framework? :wacko:

[NXPdev]

Ok - I have no doubt that, eventually, Windows will be 99% managed code. However - I don't think it's been done already.

Anyway, even if they wrapped existing classes, then it's not managed code.

[smurfiness]

Ok - I have no doubt that, eventually, Windows will be 99% managed code. However - I don't think it's been done already.

Anyway, even if they wrapped existing classes, then it's not managed code.

Windows will never be 99% managed code. It can't be. The Framework isn't a platform by itself. There HAS to be a native layer (the core OS) underneath to interact with the hardware.

I'm sure that all of the applets that you actually see will eventually be converted to .NET in one way or another, but what you see is most definitely not all that's there. Graphics code, disk access code, boot code, kernel code, and anything else that interacts with the system hardware has to be native code... and that is the bulk of the system.

Going back to the earlier discussion, as far as being a ".NET OS" (whatever that's supposed to mean)... Windows either already is, or never will be, depending on your point of view. If you're holding your breath for the whole thing to be recoded for .NET (which, it seems, you are), you're going to be very disappointed, because it's never going to happen. But if changing the internals enough that the Framework is completely integrated into the system, then it's already done; and it's called Windows 2003.

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Danny Smurf

[lexecutil]

hehe i would be one of the ones with probs on XP Home with .net/dashboard :p

Dan

[NXPdev]

Nono, well, if you assume that features will be continually added... then eventually, it will be 99% managed code- because there will be 99 times more features than kernel ! (dreaming I know)

To me, .net OS is 50%+ managed code (not yet, but hopefully with LH!)

[smurfiness]

Nono, well, if you assume that features will be continually added... then eventually, it will be 99% managed code- because there will be 99 times more features than kernel ! (dreaming I know)

To me, .net OS is 50%+ managed code (not yet, but hopefully with LH!)

50% is still unlikely. Since all of the applets and programs the go with the OS aren't actually part of it (they're separate applications), I think 50% will be unrealistic for a very long time, if not forever.

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Danny Smurf

[macman87]

is explorer in LH writtern in .NET?

[.Atlantis]

is explorer in LH writtern in .NET?

OMG! :o

We have just been discussing that in the last 20 posts :trout:

[macman87]

sorry

[macman87]

is there any apps using the .NET Framework developed by MS?

[NXPdev]

Yes- off the top of my head:

Windows XP Media Center Edition (the actual eHome part of it)

Outlook 2003 Business Contact Manager

UDDI Services (in Windows Server 2003)

ASP.NET Web Matrix

parts of Visual Studio.NET

[NXPdev]

50% is still unlikely. Since all of the applets and programs the go with the OS aren't actually part of it (they're separate applications), I think 50% will be unrealistic for a very long time, if not forever.

You know what I mean... when the stuff off the installation CD (or DVD?) is 50% managed code.

I know the actual operating system base will probably never be 50% .NET.

[macman87]

does anyone have a possible version for the .net framework when it it released? 3?