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Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge

Posted by simoniker on from the forging-on dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft's WTL (Windows Template Library) toolkit source code has been released to SourceForge.net [also part of OSDN, like Slashdot.] InternetNews explains that the toolkit allows a Windows developer to create quick GUIs in C++. According to the project page, WTL extends ATL (Active Template Library) and provides a set of classes for controls, dialogs, frame windows, GDI objects, and more. WTL is licensed under CPL, which is the license Microsoft chose for the SourceForge release of the WiX installer."

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  1. Post Prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    - In other news, Hell is frozen over

    - fp!
    -- Shit. Well, time to go outside.

    - DUPE!
    -- That was WiX, idiot.
    --- Whatever, M$ sux0rs.

    - GNAA fp!

    - GNAA fp!

    - GNAA fp!

    - I bet this has viruses

    - This isn't GPL compatible

    - One time my girlfriend was using Windows, and I was like... I had sex.
    -- Dude, you had sex!
    -- Is this one of those 'I have a girlfriend' stories
    -- Your left hand uses Windows?
    -- You're so cool.
    -- Your right hand uses Windows?
    -- The problem with that is [bunch of technical innuendo, possibly involving 'finger', 'mount', etc.]

    - Patch already OUT (http://www.xfree86.org)

    - This is an M$FT product, it's shit.

    - Sounds like a trap: they release it as a standard, then 'embrace and extend' it for Longhorn.
    -- So Apple releases something as Open Source and they're great, but when Microsoft does they are evil.
    --- Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. Apple isn't.

    - Pff, only one guy did this. I could do better.

    - OSS Community already released a PATCH (http://www.mandrake.com)

    - Why don't they release the BSOD as GPL?

    - In the weather today, hell is feeling mighty cold.

    - Like I want bloatware MS shit polluting my system anyway. Anyone can do better than this.
    -- It's Open Source, you can take the bloat out.
    --- I don't know how.

    - In recent news, up is found to be the new down.

    - Already been PATCHED (http://www.redhat.com)

    - Looks like something to do with Sasser!

    - I'm better than everyone and know what they'll say. Also I find post prediction posts to be terribly original, unlike the comments I mock in them.

  2. Sounds mighty British by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stand erect, keep the stiff upper lip, don't let them see you flinch...

    As the ship slowly sinks beneath you...