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by contextfree
5463 days ago
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It depends what you mean by "Win32" - the legacy Win32 API includes calls for 2D graphics (GDI32) and UI (USER32). The graphics and UI toolkits in the original release of .NET (System.Drawing, System.Windows.Forms) were just wrappers around those, but WPF (and now Jupiter/DirectUI/WinRTUI?) was a separate framework built on Direct3D (does Direct3D count as part of "Win32"?) I don't think there was ever any plan to somehow replace the threading primitives and stuff (KERNEL32). Or, put another way, you could say the legacy Win32 API contains lower-level and higher-level functions, and the higher-level stuff is what was/is being replaced - with new frameworks built on the lower-level functions. |
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