[pianoben]

> Sometimes I get the feeling WinDev requires Notepad as their IDE

When I was involved with Win32 Office, this (or the moral equivalent with VS Code) was often the case. Proper Visual Studio support was kludgy and difficult to maintain, and many (myself included) did without.

Most of the major desktop product groups have 30+ year old codebases and sure as hell aren't working off the latest C++, let alone C++/WinRT bindings. They've got other tools, or just put up with the drudgery because it's all they know.

[pjmlp]

Thanks for confiming this.

How else can someone praise C++/WinRT versus the capabilities of C++/CX, which was finally something on the Microsoft side that could be compared with C++ Builder.

Sure it is an uplevel from WRL, however almost no one outside Redmod ever cared that WRL existed.

The only way to consider C++/WinRT on its present state as good is if the person in question never knew anything better, including MS own tooling.