Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with VS-.Net?

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M. Scott Blalock

Can I build non-.net framework (native windows) apps with
VS-.Net?

M. Scott Blalock
 
You'll need to at least have the framework to build an app. Using Unsafe
code you can do a lot, call old .dll's (after all, isn't most of .NET just
an elegant OO wrapper of COM?) etc etc etc.

As an old C++ programmer, there's not a good reason to use VS.NET to write
old school stuff...and no, you can't write anything that won't run under the
framework.

HTH,

Bill
 
William Ryan said:
You'll need to at least have the framework to build an app. Using Unsafe
code you can do a lot, call old .dll's (after all, isn't most of .NET just
an elegant OO wrapper of COM?) etc etc etc.

As an old C++ programmer, there's not a good reason to use VS.NET to write
old school stuff...and no, you can't write anything that won't run under the
framework.
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Well, I'm pretty sure that you can use plain ole C++ and ATL or MFC if you
want to, I know I wrote a silly vanilla C app not long ago. You no longer
have access to VB6, but C++ is still completly capable of targeting the
system natively
 
You can use C++ to build native applications as long as you only use
unmanaged code. To run a C#, VB.Net or managed C++ application, you must
have the .Net Framework installed on the client machine.
 
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