Longhorn, Another New Possibility - Will C# and .NET Die After Longhorn?
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Just think about it. Would the Microsoft .NET design team and C# design team spend many years designing C# and the .NET Framework so that it would be used for only 4 or 5 years? I don't think so. In fact, Microsoft is using .NET as the first development technology for many of its products such as Visual Studio.NET and now Longhorn. So Longhorn is a managed application (you can think of it like that for now). Even better is that Longhorn was developed using the concepts of .NET, such as Object Oriented Programming (OOP). That means when I tell you that there is a class called Application, which is a key class in Longhorn, you will understand the big picture much more.
The name '.NET' may soon start to get blurry, and other terms may replace some technologies, but the technologies and tools used in .NET will exist in the background. For example, CLR, GC, compilers for C#, VB.NET, etc. will be there. Also note that your .NET application will work well on Longhorn and you can still create Longhorn applications using your favorite .NET programming language.
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