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This is really amazing! 
My first rule of debugging: "If you get a different error message, you're making progress."
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Only for windows store apps at present.
If they get it working for winforms we'll finally stop having to deal with an obfuscator for a customer who's scared that reflection means .net is too easy to reverse engineer compared to C++. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This is similar to what Eiffel does. Compiles to C to produce C/C++ performance.
Kevin
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This is a writeup of the Microsoft Office team’s source control usage, and how close it is to an ideal Trunk Based Development (TBD) model. Interesting look at how one (pretty largish) group uses the tools
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I thought trunk-based development was only used by elephants? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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ext Thursday, NASA will release a master list of software projects it has cooked up over the years. This is more than just stuff than runs on a personal computer. Think robots and cryogenic systems and climate simulators. There’s even code for running rocket guidance systems. You too can become a rocket surgeon
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The article source is a blog post saying the code was open sourced in 2009, soooo....
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For the Apollo software yes. This is more.
TTFN - Kent
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Less than two weeks after drawing controversy over his appointment as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, Brendan Eich has resigned from the position. "Life has its little ups and downs like ponies on a merry go round, and no one grabs a brass ring every time"
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One of the major factors that is preventing older enterprises from leaving Windows XP is the prevalence of mission critical applications written in Visual Basic 6. Is it the cause, or the effect?
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I can't see why? We have an older bug tracking system, written in VB6, and it's running perfectly even on Windows 8...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Quote: if it relies on obscure COM or control libraries
I'd be guessing that is a fairly low (but measurable) number of VB6 apps. I'd put a guess that anything using hooking might be an issue. Maybe stuff using security APIs as well.
Oh Spyworks, I miss you.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: anything using hooking might be an issue. Maybe stuff using security APIs as well.
Can't see why? Windows internals didn't changed a bit since 3.11. Same COM based kernel, same Pascal inspired API...Bring your 'obscure COM' with you - it will run...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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/shrug.
Again, I'm assuming stuff that's now hidden behind UAT, or perhaps stuff that changed between XP and Weven. I'm drawing a blank on what it could be though, and I think I'm still running a few VB6 things at one customer (they look like it anyway).
TTFN - Kent
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The problem is you have to find out what the obscure COM bits that are missing are and find a way to get a hold of them.
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Seriously. And think about some of the windows controls like tree view and how they look the same as Win95 and almost the same as win3.11. Also, isn't it interesting that FileExplorer (Explorer) if pointed at a large repository will spin until it reads every file in the repo (even if there are 10s of thousands) and only after all are read will it begin to display them to you? That is an app in serious need of rewrite and it's the shell. 
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You are joking I hope.
The entire kernel is different since Windows 3.11. That was a 16-bit O/S built on top of DOS.
Modern Windows derives from Windows NT, an entirely different beast.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I didn't mean 3.11 literally - my point was that nothing changed since VB6 that should prevent running it on modern Windows... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I have an activex component that is still cookin along even in 8.1
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A new study of the questions asked on Stack Exchange reveals what issues are giving web developers headaches. This news item looks best on Netscape Navigator
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Since when someone who ask a question about HTML 5 on Stack Exchange is a web developer?!
Usage and implementation of HTML 5 in a word where the standard not even set IS a cross browser compatibility problem - in it's full beauty...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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