GrayKnight

They will not cut out all of the win32 APIs in the next version of windows (Longhorn) however they are going to be cutting a lot out: http://www.iapplianceweb.com/story/OEG20030507S0037 WINHEC: Microsoft plans Win32 API, XAML revamp By Paula Rooney, CRN (05/07/03, 04:27:34 PM EDT) New Orleans, La. -- Microsoft plans a major cleanup of Win32 API and integration of XML application markup language (XAML) to make the next version of Windows as friendly to developers as users. Details on this revamp were revealed at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. First, the software giant aims to slash the number of API calls in the Win32 API set from more than 70,000 to fewer than 10,000 to help developers better exploit the next-generation Windows shell, user interface (code-named Aero) and .Net framework components in Longhorn, according to sources familiar with the Longhorn plans. "Win32 has like 76,000 APIs, and they're taking it down to 8,000 with Longhorn technology," said one source familiar with the plans. And some movies that I was watching on Microsoft MSDN say mostly the same thing. This is what I was referring to. You are right when you that it will not happen all at once however well over the majority of the Win32 API calls (it seems) are going to be cut out. Also here is a great movie by Microsoft's new WinFX plans with Longhorn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20031107WINFXBA/manifest.xml GrayKnight

my website is on aplus.net which has support for the asp.net stuff. I personally don't use it yet. Go to http://www.aplus.net they are great. 99.9% up and that it true and all of this other go stuff. They have Unix OS Server and Windows 2003/.Net OS Server systems. check them out.... my website by the way is http://www.maretsoftware.com (it runs on Aplus.net) GrayKnight

that is great because I just "hate" to be forced to register a product. for me I do not like to give you that information (just something about me). right now I'm a VB6 programmer and I was reading some information about "Longhorn" the new window OS to come out in a few years (04/05). anyway I do belive that they are getting ride of the win32 AIPs so that all vb6 programs will not work on the OS in a few years. which would mean that I need to upgrade and get new products. thank you for your help. GrayKnight

and you do not lose any features or anything like that in not registering.....

Hello, I'm going to be getting the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect Edition 2003 (that's a mouth full). I was just wondering, do you have to register the product with Microsoft? Is it a mandatory thing for the customer (which would be me) to do or can you not register it? If you don't register the product with Microsoft do you not get some of the feature? GrayKnight