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Microsoft Simplifies API for Longhorn

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zzxc writes "InternetWeek.com reports that Microsoft is cleaning up its API and integrating its XML Application Markup Language for its anticipated Longhorn release. An unnamed source says that Microsoft will be slashing the number of API calls from 76k to 8k. In addition, the new graphics device interface, codename Avalon, will use XAML-based scripts instead of a complicated API. Microsoft is planning on including XAML design in the next Visual Studio.net release. CRN is also reporting on this."

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  1. Re:Cool. by borgboy · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gosh it's so cool to bash MS. I bet you even have a leg to stand on. I bet you can name over 10 Win32 APIs, huh? Hmmmmm.

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  2. Re:Cool. by torpor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure ... lets see ... theres ummm ... LoadLibrary(), then there's LoadLibraryEx(), then there's LoadLibrary32(), then there's LoadLibrary32Ex(), then theres MS_LoadLibrary(), then theres MS_LoadLibrary32(), then theres MS_LoadLibraryEx() ...

    Oh, okay, I give up. I only ever used LoadLibrary() a couple hundred times, personally, and even then, only to get incompatible API functions loaded from various copies of the same .DLL found all over C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM, C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32, C:\WINDOWS\WINNT, etc.

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  3. when I was your age... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I was your age we had 0x128e0 non consistant
    API calls and we LOVED it.

  4. Re:How much to learn? by superdoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, they'll only be adding 65536 new things. After that they get an overflow in MSAPIOBF.DLL, the Microsoft API Obfuscator API.