{"id":4608,"date":"2014-03-30T13:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/30\/whats-the-main-developing-framework-for-the-next-windows-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/"},"modified":"2014-03-30T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:59:01","slug":"whats-the-main-developing-framework-for-the-next-windows-collection-of-common-programming-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/2014\/03\/30\/whats-the-main-developing-framework-for-the-next-windows-collection-of-common-programming-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#39;s the main developing framework for the next Windows?-Collection of common programming errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is worth asking. When Windows 8 was demonstrated in June, a couple of comments by the presenter scared quite a few developers &#8211; or at least turned the Internet into panic mode. I&#8217;m surprised this question hasn&#8217;t been asked here before.<\/p>\n<p>The best article on the topic I have found is <strong>Windows 8 for Software Developers<\/strong> on Ars Technica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The short answer is:<\/strong> it will remain the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The long answer is:<\/strong> it will remain the same, but several things will be added. You may want to pursue using those if you&#8217;re willing to bet on new Microsoft technologies. One particularly interesting one is <strong>WinRT<\/strong>, which is a new object-oriented native code API exposed through COM, which is supposed to be a new version of the old flat Win32 API. Details are in the linked article.<\/p>\n<p>It is very, very, very, very unlikely that anything that already exists, especially based on Win32 or .Net, would be removed. That means your existing programs written in .Net or native C++ or Delphi will continue to work fine. It is also unlikely that the primary development platform will be HTML. More likely is that HTML applications will be encourage for specific scenarios &#8211; perhaps touchscreen, kiosks and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d encourage you to read the article I linked to above &#8211; it covers this in far more detail than any answer here can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is worth asking. When Windows 8 was demonstrated in June, a couple of comments by the presenter scared quite a few developers &#8211; or at least turned the Internet into panic mode. I&#8217;m surprised this question hasn&#8217;t been asked here before. The best article on the topic I have found is Windows 8 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknownerror.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}