Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

November 12, 2008

Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

According to an SDTimes report, Microsoft will push native features in the next version of Visual Studio. So native development in not dead, nor Delphi...

According to an SDTimes report from TechEd in Barcelona, Microsoft will push native features (that is, C++) in the next version of Visual Studio. According to the article they'll add coding helpers, "facilities for developing applications that run on Windows Azure in the cloud; parallel development; and for enabling the support of large codebases". The article goes on reporting complaints by C++ developers who felt neglected by the focus for .NET.

This is interesting for Delphi developers as well. First, native development in not dead, nor Delphi Win32. Fur sure, .NET made inroads but didn't remove the need and usefulness of native applications. Second, there will be support for Windows Azure applications in the cloud for native solutions, not only managed ones. It would be nice to have a Delphi Azure...

posted by marcocantu @ 1:20AM | 5 Comments [0 Pending]

5 Comments

Now it's about their hardware.

So, could it be that Microsoft is concerned again
about the optimization of hardware resources because
in the cloud is about their hardware, not ours? 

but of course! If you are going to run your
applications virtualized in the Microsoft's cloud,
they are helping thierselves helping you to consume
less resources (their resources) as native
applications relatively do, compared with managed apps
(memory and the JIT and GAC burden).

I'm sure their going to "manage" (or at least to try)
to give some competitive advantage to their ackward 
native development platform (AKA Visual C++), so it's
going to be even more important that Delphi maintains
and extends their own. Advantages like integration
with OS native services (IIS, Active Directory,
security, etc) could become real factors for desicion.

Comment by Salvador Gomez Retamoza [http://salvador.oversistemas.com] on November 12, 02:14

Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

It is a really good new in fact, native code were bad
words in the last years to some "smart people" and
hopefully this kind of politics revert things.
Microsoft made a huge mistake on focusing for years in
.NET almost exclusively just to compete with Java,
leaving a big community of C++ developers with the
feeling of being neglected... its a pitty for Delphi
that Borland didnt take a true advantage of that
situation and decided to follow Microsoft in that bad
decisions. None of them had behave seriously with the
development community.
Now that Delphi is in new hands and that it is said
that it will be giving new life to native code
development, its pretty curious that Microsoft
remember that they had that support also in their
VS... sounds pathetic (which is not new coming from
Microsoft), anyway, lets see how things evolve.

Comment by Javier Santo Domingo [] on November 12, 06:39

Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

Obviously Microsoft must offer support for Native code
in some form or other. How else can manufacturers
build drivers for their products?

Comment by Ken Knopfli on November 12, 13:07

Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

This shows how dangerous is to mirror MS politics 
just because "it's Microsoft". What made Borland 
great was to follow its own vision, when they lost it 
they lost the market.

Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on November 12, 19:47

Improved Native Support in Visual Studio 2010

There's been a huge potential to attract neglected 
VC++ developers to C++Builder, but I wonder how many 
actually switched. 

Now that MS announces this, it'll be harder to 
convince these developers to switch away from the 
dark side.

Comment by Wouter [] on November 15, 22:28

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