[Info-vax] VSI licensing policy (again), was: Re: VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/18/2021 4:32 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 at 9:23:00 AM UTC+12, Michael S wrote:
>> But in theory, most of in-house stuff nowadays is written in .Net ...
> 
> What, not Dotnet Core? What happened to Win64? Silverlight? WinRT? UWP? How many versions of “Project Reunion” have there been?
> 
> I don’t think Windows developers can say with any certainty right now which of Microsoft’s many platform APIs is the “core” one going forward...

The applications Michael is talking about are doing fine.

C# or VB.NET winform or WPF app acting as GUI for some business 
application. "VB6 replacement"

Code should work unchanged from 1.0 (winform) / 3.0 (WPF) to 6.0.

So no problem for them.

The problems are in the more "exotic" sides of .NET.

.NET code running in the browser (SL) got canned. Just like
Java applets, Adobe Flash and other similar technologies. SL
never got much traction anyway.

The entire Metro/UWP and Xamarin/MAUI story is a big mess. But their
adoptation has so far been rather limited.

Arne