Does Vista belong to NT family?

josku_x · Post by **josku_x** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 10:52 am

Hello!
I wanted to know if the new Windows Vista belong to the Windows NT family... Just like Windows 2000 and XP belong to the NT family.

I wanted to know this, because most of my codes uses NT API calls, etc.. And there's no information to this question when I searched Microsoft's site and Google.-

Thanks

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:30 am

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:39 am

However this doesnt mean that you can use the same api calls. I think they actually are moving slowly to switch the whole api with .net...

PB · Post by PB » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:38 pm

> I think they actually are moving slowly to switch the whole api with .net

Hmm, if that's the plan, and all my current Windows software is incompatible
with it, then I see no reason to stay with Windows for the future. Bad idea!

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:39 pm

Please note the word slowly

maybe its like with dos, it gets slower etc

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 1:03 pm

Take a peek at the .Net dlls with a dependency viewer and be relaxed.

josku_x · Post by **josku_x** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:59 pm

So I shouldn't be much worried?

Well, if they're really going to switch API calls to .NET, that is a big problem, especially because I am making an interpeter that uses a massive amount of API calls.

Damn! That Billy boy cannot decide the best for programmers.

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:16 pm

The .Net uses the ordinary Windows API. A rewrite of them would take time anyways. (Maybe that's why Vista is delayed?)

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:00 pm

Originally the plan was to make Vista .NET based but that was abandoned a long time ago.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:01 pm

Since Vista uses the Windows XP as the codebase .. yeppers, it's NT.

josku_x · Post by **josku_x** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:29 pm

Man was I scared

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 8:39 pm

Karbon wrote:Originally the plan was to make Vista .NET based but that was abandoned a long time ago.

Seriously? What's the point with it then?!

Rescator · Post by **Rescator** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:26 am

Windows 9x core (95/98/Me) version 4.x series
Windows NT core (NT 4.0) 4.x series

Windows NT core (2000/XP/2003) 5.x series

Windows NT core (Vista) 6.x series ???

Karbon wrote: Originally the plan was to make Vista .NET based but that was abandoned a long time ago.

Well, not surprising really.
.NET is a wrapper for the WINAPI which is the actual OS API layer.
The same way ATL, WTL, and all the other frameworks I can't remember.

This is why I love PB, no need to use any wrapper to use WINAPI features.
I can just use a feature here and there inbetween PB features

Hmm, maybe list that as a PB feature?
Inline WINAPI