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Re: what language did microsoft use to develop .net framework

David Williams , VB.NET MVP
7/14/2004 3:59:48 AM

AFAIK most of the Framework is in C#.

Yes and No. You can call the API's that interact with the hardware, but
you could not write, for instance, a device driver in C#.

HTH
David

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Re: what language did microsoft use to develop .net framework

Niki Estner
7/14/2004 5:38:40 PM

"blacknight" <blacknight@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:5F16063E-52E7-4200-9BCD-82537EEEE448@microsoft.com...
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You can take a look at a great part of the sources in ROTOR. The "raw
fundamentals" like JIT, GC, Loader are written in C++, most of the framework
classes are written in C#.

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hardware

Depends on the hardware; But there are no artificial limitations as in e.g.
java to ensure platform compatiblity. Most of the things possible from an
unmannaged app should also be possible from a managed one.

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Re: what language did microsoft use to develop .net framework

William Stacey [MVP]
7/15/2004 5:57:56 PM

And if you use Reflector, the language they originally used becomes less
important as they all cook down to IL which can be reversed into VB or C#,
delphi, etc. as Reflector does a good job of this. It does make for
interesting folklore however.

--
William Stacey, MVP

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