[Mono-winforms-list] WinFX and Avalon

Dan Maltes dan@astusa.com
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:05:48 -0500 

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Is longhorn both a client and server release? ie. winxp and 2003 server
It's too bad win32 will hang on for soooo long into the future with
win9x and nt/xp.  MS could always solve that with super cheap upgrades
though. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: mono-winforms-list-admin@lists.ximian.com
[mailto:mono-winforms-list-admin@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Oren
Novotny
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:23 PM
To: mono-winforms-list@lists.ximian.com
Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] WinFX and Avalon



There appears to be some excellent news on the horizon for Mono.
Avalon, the new Longhorn GUI system, no longer relies on Win32 for
anything-no more WndProc!  Instead, it sits on top of WinFX, which is a
new Managed Windows subsystem that runs parallel (not on top of) to
Win32.  

 

The good news is that it should be far easier to map the Avalon
components to some native components.   Maybe there's still hope for
cross-platform GUI applications yet?  Now if only I didn't have to wait
so long to get the WinForms stuff working on OSX..

 

--Oren

 


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