This week has been a week with a whole lot of work. And all that despite the fact that today is the last day of my two weeks lasting vacation. Actually, I thought that I could bring the project, a friend of mine and me are currently working on to a new point, but that's something I wasn't granted.
And the reason is that I started (more or less accidentally) reading about C++/CLI. If anybody asked me why I couldn't say. And this took me on a journey through a whole lot of new stuff - managed c++, Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0, WinFX.... and that's where I am. All this made me wonder whether it were useful to put our project on a native base or whether it would make more sense to start on the upcoming managed system programming interface that will be published next year with Windows Vista - namely WinFX.
OK, wondering if and what makes sense never takes anybody to any destination and this is why I have finished right in this very moment running the installation tools for the whole WinFX stuff on Windows XP. Everything went fine and my computer now contains the beta versions of the next windows system programming environment. Well, there were times when I would have put down anybody who is doing this as an idiot. It seems that I am the idiot now, but I think next year I'll be glad about this. There's just one flaw. The WinFX extensions for the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 do not support Visual C++ 2005 Beta 2, but only Visual C# 2005 Beta 2. Hmm, it seems that one day I will have to learn this language, too. At least I starts with "C" ;)
